fire-eater
fire-eater noun: a performer who pretends to swallow fire.
Noun (1)
fire-eater (plural fire-eaters)
- A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
- Synonyms:
- firebreather, fire-breather, fire breather
- A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
- "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."Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten)
- "But he is a regular fire eater!"
- An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
- Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 103
Noun (2) capitalized: Fire-Eater
Fire-Eater (plural Fire-Eaters)
- Alternative form of fire-eater (“extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War”).
fire-eater meaning in Arabic
fire-eater in Arabic
- performer
- آكِل اَلنَّار ʔākil an-nār
Synonyms of fire-eater
- firebreather
- fire-breather
- fire breather
Forms of fire-eater
| plural | fire-eaters |
|---|---|
| alternative form | fire eater |
| alternative form | fireeater |
| plural | Fire-Eaters |
Questions about fire-eater
- What does fire-eater mean?
- Fire-eater means a performer who pretends to swallow fire.
- What is fire-eater in Arabic?
- Fire-eater in Arabic is آكِل اَلنَّار (ʔākil an-nār). See Fire-eater meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is fire-eater?
- Fire-eater is a noun.
- What is the plural of fire-eater?
- The plural of fire-eater is fire-eaters.
Words near fire-eater in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fire-eater (page history and authors); Fire-Eater (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “fire-eater.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fire-eater. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.