fighting words

/F AY1 T IH0 NG W ER0 D Z/
noun
  1. 1

    Aggressive remarks that foreseeably may lead to a potentially violent confrontation; in law, often considered mitigation for otherwise sanctionable behavior (fighting).

Translate “fighting words” into another language

Choose a language below to open the translator with English selected as the source language.

🇪🇸Spanish🇫🇷French🇩🇪German🇸🇦Arabic🇨🇳Chinese Simplified🇯🇵Japanese🇮🇳Hindi🇧🇷Portuguese🇷🇺Russian🇰🇷Korean🇮🇹Italian🇹🇷Turkish
See all 248+ languages

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fighting%20words

Back to Dictionary