# fighting
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaɪtɪŋ/
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### Etymology 1

From Middle English feghtyng, fyȝtynge, fightand, feghtand, feghtande, feightand, feȝtand, viȝtinde, feihtende, from Old English feohtende, from Proto-Germanic *fehtandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, struggle, contend with”), equivalent to fight +‎ -ing.

#### Adjective

fighting
* Engaged in war or other conflict.
* 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, 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 Bob
* fighting chance
* fighting hole
* fighting little judge
* fightingly
* fighting word
* nonfighting
* unfighting

##### Translations
#### Verb

fighting
* present participle and gerund of fight

### Etymology 2

From Middle English fightyng, fightynge, fiȝtinge, feȝtyng, from Old English fihtung (“fighting”), equivalent to fight +‎ -ing.

#### Noun

fighting (countable and uncountable, plural fightings)
* The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
* 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 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.

##### Derived terms

* antifighting
* armored combat fighting
* armored fighting vehicle
* armoured combat fighting
* armoured fighting vehicle
* bullfighting
* bushfighting
* cage fighting
* Chinese fighting stick
* cockfighting
* cock-fighting
* crimefighting
* fighting chair
* fighting cock
* fighting fish
* fighting fit
* fighting game
* fighting irons
* fighting spirit
* fighting stick
* fighting words
* firefighting
* fire fighting
* footfighting
* freedom fighting
* gunfighting
* infantry fighting vehicle
* infighting
* in fighting trim
* kite fighting
* shootfighting
* Siamese fighting fish
* snowfighting
* stickfighting
* stick-fighting
* stink fighting
* streetfighting
* street fighting
* sword fighting
* warfighting
* z-fighting

##### Descendants

* → Korean: 화이팅 (hwaiting), 홧팅 (hwat'ting) — clipping, ㅎㅇㅌ — chat abbreviation
** → Chinese: fighting
** → Japanese: ファイティン (faitin)

##### Translations
## Chinese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 화이팅 (hwaiting) or 파이팅 (paiting), from English fighting.

### Pronunciation

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### Interjection

fighting
* (slang) go for it (to put maximum effort into achieving something)
    From: 2016, 关晓彤晒高中最后一课 抬腿贴黑板摆拍, 新浪娱乐
    Fùzhōng liù nián, tàolù mǎnmǎn, yīdìng dài zhe xǐxùn huílái! Fùzhōngrén fighting! [Pinyin]
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    From: 2016, 赵本山女儿晒健身照 短发清爽欲练马甲线, 新浪娱乐
    Yùndònghuì shǐ zhěnggè rén jīngshén qǐlái! Zhèngzài chōng xiàng mǎjiǎxiàn bǎobaomen de hángliè zhōng! Fighting! [Pinyin]
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    From: 2018, 《脱身》玩转粉色幽默 陈坤万茜“放飞自我”, 网易娱乐
    Dà Qiáo fighting! [Pinyin]
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