fightah

fightah

English

Noun

fightah (plural fightahs)

1. Eye dialect spelling of fighter.
   • 1924, The Fighting Coward

     "And yeah comes the ownah of dis place — Gen'l O'lando Jackson–th' no-tor-ious fightah!"

   • 2002, Rodney Morales, When the Shark Bites, University of Hawaii Press (→ISBN), page 340:

     Daddy was da main crime fightah. I was his sidekick.

   • 2006, Paul Dean Coker, The Figurehead, Paul Dean Coker (→ISBN), page 224:

     A feral untamed fightah, bravah thahn any I've known since, present company accepted.

   • 2018, Joseph Altsheler, The Sword of Antietam, B&R Samizdat Express (→ISBN)

     Gen'ral Buell, f'om all I heah, is a good fightah, but slow.