fiery

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  1. adjective Consisting of or containing fire.
  2. adjective Burning or glowing.
  3. adjective Using or effected with fire.
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  • Rika's very energetic and fiery, and she knows how to use her body language to get what she wants. —  Siliconera
  • But during their first meeting on what has become a fiery issue, members of a House-Senate conference committee charged with drafting a plan that can pass the Republican-ruled Senate and Democrat-led House offered no hints on what a compromise might entail. —  Chesterton Tribune
  • Arne Carlson was more fiery -- exasperated, one might say -- in his 25-minute talk. —  Politics in Minnesota - Minnesota's Public Affairs News Service
  • Wuthering Heights (which instilled an unnatural belief that every romantic relationship is passionate, fiery, and depressing), and —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • Stephen Schwartz's new musical Wicked tells the story of two girls in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. —  TheaterMania.com
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English firi, from fir, fire; see fire.

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  1. Early mod English also firy; from Middle English firy, fyry, fury, fuyrie (Anglo-Saxon not found; = OFries. fiurech = Dutch vurig = Middle High German viuric, German feurig = Danish fyrig, fiery); from fire + - y.
 

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