fire-eater

See also: fireeater and fire eater

English

Alternative forms

• fire eater
• fireeater

Noun

fire-eater (plural fire-eaters)

1. A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
2. (figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
3. (US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford 2003, p. 103:

     Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.

Related terms

• fire-eating

Translations

performer

• Arabic: آكِل اَلنَّار (ʔākil an-nār)
• Finnish: tulennielijä (fi)
• French: mangeur de feu, cracheur de feu (fr)
• German: Feuerschlucker (de) m
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• Hebrew: רוֹשֵׁף (he) m (roshéf)
• Kurdish:
• Swedish: eldslukare c

quarrelsome or belligerent person

• Finnish: riitapukari
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extreme partisan for the South

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