NOUN
- a belligerent grouch
- a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
- a performer who pretends to swallow fire
How To Use fire-eater In A Sentence
- Fire-eaters and acrobats vied with the “Whirling Dervish” dances of Sufi ecstatics and the horseback shooting competitions of the thousands of curious Bedouin who had camped outside the city. Three Empires on the Nile
- I sang them the old hunting - song, and they said I did it tunably, and, whereas they saw I could already dance a hornpipe and turn a somersault passably well, the leader of the troop, old Nat Fire-eater, took me on, and methinks he did not repent -- nor I neither -- save when I sprained my foot and had time to lie by and think. The Armourer's Prentices
- It is essential that we take no drastic actions that would please our own fire-eaters but would drive foreign states into the arms of the terrorists.
- a genuine fire-eater, especially when he had his "schnapps" on board, was cruising under the lee of Grenada, and fell in with a large ship, to which the frigate gave chase. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
- I guess tomorrow night I'll pretend to be a snake charmer or a fire-eater, maybe the girl who rides the ponies backwards. Tightrope
- Live music, funfairs and fire-eaters are among the attractions being lined up to celebrate Bonfire Night across the region tomorrow.
- But things hotted up with the onset of dusk, as strobe lighting and fire-eaters added atmosphere to the cavernous marquee that served as a dance floor.
- The people running the event were cheerful and friendly and they'd laid on fire-eaters and drummers to entertain us.
- For the children there were clowns, stilt walkers, magicians, fire-eaters and the real old favourite of a Punch and Judy show.
- Silver-coated mime artists, preening pipers and flaming fire-eaters clog every city thoroughfare.
