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hotspur|ˈhɒtspɜː(r)|
1. One whose spur is hot with impetuous or constant riding; hence, one who spurs or pushes on recklessly; a heady or rash person. (First occurring, and best known, as surname of Sir Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, who fell in the rebellion against Henry IV, in 1403.)
1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 243 Herry Percy the yonger, whom the Scottis clepid Herry Hatspore. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 97/2 He was..in matters of importance an headlong hotspur. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. ii. 19 A haire-brain'd Hotspurre, gouern'd by a Spleene. 1600Holland Livy xxxvi. vi. 922 Some hot-spurres..gave councell to goe against them with all their forces. 1726De Foe Hist. Devil (1822) 287 As we say of some hot-spurs who ride post, they whip the post boy. 1895Daily News 19 Apr. 5/5 The ‘Vossische Zeitung’..says: ‘Perhaps this sudden coolness on the part of England gives certain Hot⁓spurs in our own Fatherland something to think about’.
†2. Name for a very early kind of pea: also hotspur-pease. (Cf. hasting B. 1.) Obs.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Hot Spur,..also early or forward Peas. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4357/4 To be sold..Rogue-Pease, and Hotspur-Pease. 1707–12Mortimer Husb. (J.), The hotspur is the speediest of any in growth.
3. attrib. or adj. Fiery-spirited, hasty, rash.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. i. 35 The hot-spurre youth so scorning to be crost. c1618[see horse-racer]. 1660Hickeringill Jamaica (1661) 71 A wary plodding Fabius signifying more than a hot Spur Marcellus. 1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 425/1 After the union of the States..the political conduct of South Carolina was so imperious..that she was not uncommonly known as the ‘Hotspur State’.
So hot-spurred |ˈhɒtspɜːd| a. = 3.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 60 Such a hotspurd plague as hath not bin heard of. 1683Chalkhill Thealma & Cl. 4l (N.) A hot-spurr'd youth height Hylas. |