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fire-breathing
fire-breath·ing F5136650 (fīr′brēth′ĭng)adj.1. Expelling fire from the mouth: a fire-breathing dragon.2. Filled with angry and forceful rhetoric or speech: "a fire-breathing antitax crusader who ran for president" (Stephen Kinzer).n.1. The act of a performer who takes an accelerant into the mouth and then ejects a large flame.2. Angry and forceful rhetoric or speech.
fire′-breath′er n.fire′breath`ing
adj. intensely ardent or passionate; fiery. fire-breathing
fire-breathing(used as a modifier before a noun) Particularly ardent, vehement, or excoriating in speech or behavior. Likened to a dragon or other creature able to shoot streams of fire from its mouth. Their fire-breathing boss had all the employees constantly on edge. The fire-breathing politician was quite polarizing, but her fans were intensely loyal and supportive.EncyclopediaSeeFireThesaurusSeefire |