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fire-eater
[fahyuhr-ee-ter]
noun
an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.
an easily provoked, belligerent person.
U.S. History.an early and extreme Southern advocate of secession before the Civil War.
fire-eater
noun
a performer who simulates the swallowing of fire
a belligerent person
Other Word Forms
- fire-eating adjective
- ˈھ-ˌپԲ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of fire-eater1
Example Sentences
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.
You pass a fire-eater elevated on a striped platform.
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.
The fire-eater, amused, yelled at Salvador to catch his little brother before he ran south all the way to Mexico City.
The theatre said the fire-eater was able to walk out of the building to the ambulance.
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