English

Verb

fighting

1. present participle of fight

Derived terms

• fighting chance

Adjective

fighting

1. Engaged in war or other conflict.
2. Apt to provoke a fight.
   • 1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26:

     It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.

   • 1947, Hold That Lion! (film):

     Them's fighting words in my country!

   • 2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1576752372, page xi:

     Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.

Derived terms

• fighting words

Translations

Noun

fighting ‎(plural fightings)

1. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
   • 1613, “The Costlie Whore”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:

     Then here the warres end, here[206] our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard.

   • 1840, Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History:

     Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.

   • 1860, John Yeardley, Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel:

     A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly.

Descendants

• Korean: 화이팅 ‎(hwaiting)