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fire-eater

[fahyuhr-ee-ter]

noun

  1. an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.

  2. an easily provoked, belligerent person.

  3. U.S. History.an early and extreme Southern advocate of secession before the Civil War.



fire-eater

noun

  1. a performer who simulates the swallowing of fire

  2. a belligerent person

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • fire-eating adjective
  • ˈھ-ˌ𲹳پԲ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fire-eater1

First recorded in 1665–75
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At these multi-weekend events, artisans sold jewelry, candles and clothing; musicians played lutes and flutes; and fire-eaters, jugglers, acrobats and jousters performed feats of medieval derring-do.

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You pass a fire-eater elevated on a striped platform.

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As before there are chapter-length portraits of key players: the Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks, the South Carolina fire-eater who caned him, and Thaddeus Stevens, radical Republican and implacable foe of slavery.

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The fire-eater, amused, yelled at Salvador to catch his little brother before he ran south all the way to Mexico City.

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The theatre said the fire-eater was able to walk out of the building to the ambulance.

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