hotspur

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The young hotspur was cut to the quick, and, forgetting Corsican ways, made the witless blunder of challenging Peraldi to a duel, an institution scorned by the Corsican devotees of the vendetta.

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  1. A person who spurs or pushes on recklessly; one who is violent, passionate, heady, or rash. A hare-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 2. Wars are begun by hairbrained dissolute captains, parasitical fawners, unquiet hotspurs, and restless innovators. Burton, Anat. of Mel.
  2. A kind of pea of early growth. Of such peas as are planted or sown in gardens, the hotspur is the speediest of any in growth. Mortimer, Husbandry.
  3. Violent; impetuous. The hot-spurre youth so scorning to be crost. Spenser, F. Q., IV. i. 35.

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  • The young hotspur was cut to the quick, and, forgetting Corsican ways, made the witless blunder of challenging Peraldi to a duel, an institution scorned by the Corsican devotees of the vendetta. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
  • For he was known to all as a hotspur--a man who acted quickly and seldom counted the cost. —  Helmet of Navarre
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