firecracker

English

Etymology

fire +‎ cracker

Noun

firecracker (plural firecrackers)

1. A small explosive device, typically containing a small amount of gunpowder in a tightly-wound roll of paper, primarily designed to produce a large bang.
2. A peanut butter cracker baked with marijuana, similar in concept to an Alice B. Toklas brownie.
3. A person who is exciting and/or unpredictable.

Derived terms

• firecracker chicken
• firecracker flower
• wet firecracker

Translations

a firework

• Assamese: ফটকা (photoka)
• Bulgarian: пира́тка f (pirátka), фишек (bg) m (fišek)
• Catalan: petard (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 炮仗 (paau³ zoeng^6-2)

  Mandarin: 爆竹 (zh) (bàozhú), 鞭炮 (zh) (biānpào)

• Dutch: rotje (nl) n, vuurpijl (nl) m
• Finnish: sähikäinen (fi), papattimatto (fi)
• French: pétard (fr) m
• German: Böller (de) m, Feuerwerkskörper (de) m, Knallkörper (de) m, (colloquial) Kracher m
• Greek: κροτίδα (el) f (krotída), πυροτέχνημα (el) n (pyrotéchnima)
• Hindi: पटाका (hi) m (paṭākā)
• Hungarian: petárda
• Indonesian: air mancur api
• Italian: petardo (it) m, mortaretto (it) m, castagnola (it) f
• Japanese: 爆竹 (ja) (ばくちく, bakuchiku), 癇癪玉 (かんしゃくだま, kanshakudama)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 폭죽 (ko) (pokjuk), (爆竹 (ko)), 불꽃 (ko) (bulkkot)
• Macedonian: пета́рда f (petárda)
• Malay: mercun
• Maori: tiripapā
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: kinaputt m
• Pohnpeian: anapi
• Portuguese: traque (pt) m
• Romanian: petardă (ro) f, pocnitoare (ro) f
• Russian: пета́рда (ru) f (petárda), хлопу́шка (ru) f (xlopúška), фейерве́рк (ru) m (fejervérk)
• Spanish: petardo (es), piola (es), triquitraque (es)
• Tagalog: pakbong, rebentador, labintador
• Thai: ประทัด (bprà-tát)
• Tibetan: ཤོག་པག (shog pag)
• Turkish: havai fişek (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• fireworks