fire-eater
Noun
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Noun
fire-eater
- A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
- (figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
- (US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
- 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford 2003, p. 103:
- Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.
- 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford 2003, p. 103:
- fire-eating
- French: mangeur de feu, cracheur de feu
- German: Feuerschlucker
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