cacafuegon.
A spitfire; a braggart. The name of the Spanish galleon taken by Drake in 1577.
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jettera1400
flirdom?a1500
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termagant1508
rutterkina1529
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roister1549
swash1549
rush-buckler1551
roisterkin1553
swashbuckler1560
dash-buckler1567
swinge-buckler?1577
whiffler1581
huff-snuff1582
swish-swash1582
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swasher?1589
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huff-cap1600
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blusterer1609
wag-feather1611
wind-cutter1611
bilbo-lorda1625
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cacafuegoa1640
bravado1643
Hector1655
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bouncer1764
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bounce1819
pistol1828
sacripant1829
hufty1847
bucko1883
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Fffffff/1 She will be ravisht before our faces, by rascalls and cacafugos (wife) cacafugo's.
c1661 Argyle's Last Will in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 27/2 Presbytery will soon lose a prating, nonsensical Cacafuego.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Cacafuego, a Spanish word signifying Shitefire; and it is used for a bragging vapouring fellow.
1721–90 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1725 in New Canting Dict.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Cacafuego, an insect in Spain said to dart fire from its tail.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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