FIRE-EATERS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Fire-eaters Persons ready to quarrel for anything. The allusion is to the jugglers who "eat" flaming tow, pour melted lead down their throats, and hold red-hot metal between their teeth. Richardson, in the seventeenth century - Signora Josephine Girardelli (the original Salamander), in the early part of the nineteenth century - and Chaubert, a Frenchman, of the present century, were the most noted of these exhibitors. "The great fire-eater lay unconscious upon the floor of the house." - Nashville Banner. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Usage Frequency: FIRE-EATERS

"FIRE-EATERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FIRE-EATERS" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: FIRE-EATERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-f-i-r-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: arrestee, arteries, eateries, ferrates, ferrites, rarefies, reefiest, retirees.
	-3 letters: aeriest, afreets, artsier, eeriest, faeries, fairest, fearers, feaster, ferrate, ferrets, ferries, ferrite, fraters, freesia, rafters, reefers, reefier, refires, refries, reraise, retears, retiree, retires, retries, seriate, serrate, steerer, strafer, tarries, tarsier, tearers, tearier, terries.
	-4 letters: aerier, aeries, afreet, afrits, afters, airers, airest, aretes, arrest, artier.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-f-i-r-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: refrigerates.
	+4 letters: refractiveness.
	+5 letters: preferabilities, refractometries.
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