fire-eater

See also: fireeater, fire eater, and Fire-Eater

English

fire-eater (plural fire-eaters)

A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
(figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
- Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten)
  "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."
(US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
- 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 103:
  Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.

performer

Afrikaans: vuureter
Arabic: آكِل اَلنَّار (ʔākil an-nār)
Finnish: tulennielijä (fi)
French: mangeur de feu m, mangeuse de feu f, cracheur de feu (fr) m, cracheuse de feu (fr) f
German: Feuerschlucker (de) m, Feuerschluckerin (de) f
Hebrew: רושף \ רוֹשֵׁף (he) m (roshéf), רושפת \ רוֹשֶׁפֶת f (roshéfet)
Irish: slogaire tine m
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: agirbaz (ku) c
Swedish: eldslukare c

quarrelsome or belligerent person

extreme partisan for the South

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