Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Expelling fire from the mouth.
- adjective Filled with angry and forceful rhetoric or speech.
- noun The act of a performer who takes an accelerant into the mouth and then ejects a large flame.
- noun Angry and forceful rhetoric or speech.
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- adjective of a fabled animal, such as a dragon That emits
flame from the mouth or nostrils - adjective idiomatic
caustic ,vitriolic orscathing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.
Urizenus Sklar: All Things Sheening: Reading Charlie Sheen to Find Meaning in a Secular Age Urizenus Sklar 2011
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A fire-breathing, fist-raising march against despair, backed by massive guitars and bagpipes and played as loud and as fast as possible by this Irish-American punk rock band.
Cliff Chenfeld: The Best Music of 2011 Cliff Chenfeld 2011
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Of what potency the fearful rites and masked mysteries of shamanism, when daily that living wonder, the steamboat, coughed and spluttered up and down the Yukon in defiance of all law, a veritable fire-breathing monster?
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Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.
Urizenus Sklar: All Things Sheening: Reading Charlie Sheen to Find Meaning in a Secular Age Urizenus Sklar 2011
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Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.
Urizenus Sklar: All Things Sheening: Reading Charlie Sheen to Find Meaning in a Secular Age Urizenus Sklar 2011
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He fell into a deep cave and landed between two fire-breathing dragons.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Last fall I was shooting my .45/70 Guide gun offhand, using Garrett Cartridges 'fire-breathing cast-lead loads, and all my shots hit in a nice tight group about a foot to the right of where I was aiming.
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Last fall I was shooting my .45/70 Guide gun offhand, using Garrett Cartridges 'fire-breathing cast-lead loads, and all my shots hit in a nice tight group about a foot to the right of where I was aiming.
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He fell into a deep cave and landed between two fire-breathing dragons.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.
Urizenus Sklar: All Things Sheening: Reading Charlie Sheen to Find Meaning in a Secular Age Urizenus Sklar 2011
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