forfight
English
Alternative forms
- forefight
- forfecht (Scotland)
Etymology
From Middle English forfighten, forfehten (“to fight for, defend; exhaust with fighting”), equivalent to for- + fight.
Verb
forfight (third-person singular simple present forfights, present participle forfighting, simple past forfought, past participle forfought or forfoughten)
- (transitive, obsolete) To defend.
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To exhaust or overfatigue (oneself) with fighting.
Derived terms
- forfighter
- forfought, forfoughten
Anagrams
- right off