fire-eater
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[edit]Noun
[edit]fire-eater (plural fire-eaters)
- A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
- (figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
- Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten)
- "But he is a regular fire eater!"
"He's a bad man—a blamed bad man!" fluttered Danny Griswold.
"That's right," nodded Lewis Little. "He really wants to fight with swords, I believe."
- "But he is a regular fire eater!"
- Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten)
- (US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
- 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 103:
- Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.
Synonyms
[edit]- (performer): firebreather, fire-breather, fire breather
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[edit]performer
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quarrelsome or belligerent person
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extreme partisan for the South