Noun
A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
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- fire-eating
A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
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"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."
An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
Usage- US usage
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Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.
Noun
a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
- Synonyms
a belligerent grouch
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a performer who pretends to swallow fire
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