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fire-eater

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fire-eat·er (frtr)
n.
1. A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
2. A belligerent person or a militant partisan.
fire-eating adj.
fire-eater
Noun
1. a performer who pretends to swallow flaming rods
2. a very quarrelsome person
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Noun1.fire-eaterfire-eater - a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
fire fighter, firefighter, fireman
fire department - the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires
defender, guardian, protector, shielder - a person who cares for persons or property
fire chief, fire marshal - the head of a fire department
fire warden, forest fire fighter, ranger - an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest
2.fire-eater - a belligerent grouch
hothead
crank, crosspatch, grouch, grump, churl - a bad-tempered person
3.fire-eater - a performer who pretends to swallow fire
fire-swallower
performer, performing artist - an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience
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This is no furniture for the scholar's library, but a book for the winter evening school-room when the tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near; and honest Alan, who was a grim old fire-eater in his day has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid, carry him awhile into the Highlands and the last century, and pack him to bed with some engaging images to mingle with his dreams.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Imagine it: Those rigid, shock-headed figures, with corpsy complexions and fish glass eyes, occupying one side of the table in the constrained attitudes and dead fixedness that distinquish all men that are born of wax, and this wrinkled, smoldering old fire-eater occupying the other side, mumbling her prayers and munching her sausages in the ghostly stillness and shadowy indistinctness of a winter twilight.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Your fireside fire-eater does not think of these things.
Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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