infighter

infighter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English infight
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsjos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English infighter

    From infight + -er.

    Noun

    infighter (plural infighters)

    1. A person who engages in infighting.
      • 2016 October 10, Louis Menand, “Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today”, in The New Yorker‎[1]:
        Marx was one of the great infighters of all time, and a lot of his writing was topical and ad hominem—no-holds-barred disputes with thinkers now obscure and intricate interpretations of events largely forgotten.

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