fire-eater
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fire-eater¹
noun fire-eaters · fire eater · fireeater
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A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
Similar: firebreather, fire-breather, fire breather
- A quarrelsome or belligerent person. "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. Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.
Fire-Eater²
noun Fire-Eaters
- Alternative form of fire-eater (“extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War”).
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noun performer
| Français | mangeur de feu, mangeuse de feu, cracheur de feu, cracheuse de feu |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Feuerschlucker, Feuerschluckerin |
| العربية | آكِل اَلنَّار ʔākil an-nār |
| עברית | רושף \ רוֹשֵׁף roshéf, רושפת \ רוֹשֶׁפֶת roshéfet |
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title = {fire-eater},
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