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Definition of Fightable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fightable
Literary usage of Fightable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle (1912)
"... but this incident appears to be their only foundation ; though Disraeli in
later years told Lord Rowton that 'Sir Robert was a very " fightable " man, ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"'s a mortal coose fuller; zay a word to un, he's fightable in a minute." Flower =
a nosegay. "Her 'ad a-got a flower sure 'nough. Could smell the boy's love ..."
3. Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a by Julian Stafford Corbett (1898)
"Seymour, who commanded the ' Rainbow,' objected to the design and said he was
forced to alter her decks by cutting them to make her fightable, ..."
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