last-ditchery
/lɑːs(t)ˈdɪtʃ(ə)ri/ /las(t)ˈdɪtʃ(ə)ri/noun
The action of fighting to the last ditch; the maintaining of resistance or opposition to the end.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago). From last ditch + -ery.
- teacherly
- teachers college
- tea chest
- teach-in
- teaching
- teaching fellow
- teaching hospital
- teaching machine
- teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
- teach school
- teach someone a lesson
- Teachta Dála
- tea cloth
- death knell
- deathless
- deathlessness
- death light
- deathlike
- deathliness
- deathling
- deathly
- death march
- death mask
- death match
- death metal