noun
Meaning 1
A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fire-eater
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noun
Meaning 2
A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
Meaning 3
An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative form of fire-eater (“extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, alt-of, alternative
Topics: government, politics
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noun
Meaning 5
a performer who pretends to swallow fire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fire-swallower
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: performer, performing artist
noun
Meaning 6
a belligerent grouch
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hothead
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grouch, grump, crank, churl, crosspatch
noun
Meaning 7
a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fireman, firefighter, fire fighter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: defender, guardian, protector, shielder
Narrower terms: fire chief, fire marshal, fire warden, forest fire fighter, ranger
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: vuureter — performer
- Arabic: آكِل اَلنَّار (ʔākil an-nār) — performer
- Dutch: vuurvreter — performer
- Finnish: tulennielijä — performer
- French: mangeur de feu — performer
- French: mangeuse de feu — performer
- French: cracheur de feu — performer
- French: cracheuse de feu — performer
- German: Feuerschlucker — performer
- German: Feuerschluckerin — performer
- Hebrew: רושף \ רוֹשֵׁף (roshéf) — performer
- Hebrew: רושפת \ רוֹשֶׁפֶת (roshéfet) — performer
- Irish: slogaire tine — performer
- Northern Kurdish: agirbaz — performer
- Swedish: eldslukare — performer
- Finnish: riitapukari — quarrelsome or belligerent person