-machy, -machia, -machist, -machic, -machical +

Cock (rooster) fighting.

Cock fighting, or rooster fighting, is compounded of Greek alectryko, "cock, rooster" plus machy, "battle, fight".

Alectryomachy, originally the fighting of roosters against each other may now be roosters (and chickens in general) fighting against humans!

Roosters and their fellow chickens may very well start attacking humans for self-defense and for their survival.

If you watch TV as people make wholesale attacks on chickens in efforts to suppress avian flu, who could blame chickens for striking back? This becomes particularly a rational result of seeing chickens being stuffed into plastic bags, while still alive, and so slowly suffocating to death with other members of their species or being burned alive.

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The revolt of the chickens is discussed at alectryomachy.

A war between men or a fight between two men.

A war between angels.

Bear fights or fights between bears.

A fight between a frog and a snake.

A fight, or battle, between a frog and a snake.

1. A storm in a puddle, much ado about nothing; literally, the battle of the frogs and mice.
2. The battle between the frogs and mice; a mock heroic poem, possibly of the Greek-Homeric age.

The battle of the frogs and mice, a mock heroic poem, possibly of the Homeric age.

Another spelling of batrachoherpetomachy which is a fight between a frog and a snake.

In ancient art: A battle in which centaurs take part; a common theme for relief sculpture.

Hand-to-hand combat; fist fighting.

The fighting of dogs and bears; bear-baiting.

Fighting with a demon or demons.

A fight between two in single combat.