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fiery-tongued

fiery-tongued adjective: that breathes fire; fire-breathing.

Adjective

fiery-tongued (comparative more fiery-tongued, superlative most fiery-tongued)

  1. That breathes fire; fire-breathing.
    • Obey, if you will, the law of the baser passions, - appetite, pride, selfishness, - but know, they will scourge you into realms where the air is hot with fiery-tongued scorpions, that will sting and torment your soul into unutterable agonies!1891, Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture Delivered Before The Boston Mercantile Library Association on Its 29th Anniversary, New York: Columbian Publishing Company, page 77
  2. (figuratively) That speaks or preaches with zeal, vivid imagery, and uncompromising urgency; vitriolic; acerbic.
    • Ossian survives in him: behold that melancholy retrospect, that gloom, that melodious wail. And especially, as I have said, do his immediate ancestors survive in him, his sturdy, toiling, fiery-tongued, clannish yeoman progenitors: all are summed up here; this is the net result available for...1895, John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs, volume VI, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 59

Adverb

fiery-tongued (comparative more fiery-tongued, superlative most fiery-tongued)

  1. Breathing fire.
    • He would never again streak fiery-tongued across a midnight sky spreading death and shuddering fear.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 48

Forms of fiery-tongued

Adjective
comparativemore fiery-tongued
superlativemost fiery-tongued
Adverb
comparativemore fiery-tongued
superlativemost fiery-tongued

Questions about fiery-tongued

What does fiery-tongued mean?
Fiery-tongued means that breathes fire; fire-breathing.
What part of speech is fiery-tongued?
Fiery-tongued can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near fiery-tongued in the dictionary

  1. fiery skimmers
  2. fiery skipper
  3. fiery skippers
  4. fiery-tailed awlbill
  5. fiery-tailed awlbills
  6. fiery-tongued
  7. fies
  8. fies away
  9. Fiesch
  10. Fiesso
  11. fiesta

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