Definitions for fire-eater

fire-eater fire-eat·er

Spelling: [fahyuh r-ee-ter]
IPA: /ˈfaɪərˌi tər/

Fire-Eater is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in fire-eater (-aeeefirrt).

Definitions for fire-eater

noun

  1. an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.
  2. an easily provoked, belligerent person.
  3. U.S. History. an early and extreme Southern advocate of secession before the Civil War.

Origin of fire-eater

First recorded in 1665-75

Examples for fire-eater

It was quite evident that he was not such a fire-eater as Captain Stinger.

He is the dandy of the company in real life, though a fire-eater on the stage.

"They called you the 'fire-eater,'" I added, never knowing when to stop.

“My, what a fire-eater my little Harvey has become,” she said.

fire-eater, on the contrary, whenever he was really overcome, had the habit of sneezing.

Where are the blankets and merchandise that bought the right of the fire-eater?

I may have been a fire-eater once—I may have been a gay young feller as could—; but no matter.

People said afterward it was a pity he was such a fire-eater.

Personally, he is the last man who would be selected as a “fire-eater.”

And he pulled out the money that fire-eater had made him a present of.

Word Value for fire-eater
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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