fire eating en · NOUN
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The act of putting fire into one's mouth and extinguishing it, as an entertaining performance.
- (countable, figuratively, uncountable) quarrelsome or belligerent.
- (US, countable, historical, uncountable) extremely partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fire eatings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |