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  • noun A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.

Etymologies

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fire +‎ breather

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Examples

  • Yeah, Erickson's a firebreather, but he traffics in opinion and as somebody who's offered up his share of offensive commentary in the past, it's not like I could say that he somehow has less right to be inflammatory simply because he's on the opposite side of the fence from what I believe.

    Chez Pazienza: ABC News to Redeem Guy With No Redeeming Qualities Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Yeah, Erickson's a firebreather, but he traffics in opinion and as somebody who's offered up his share of offensive commentary in the past, it's not like I could say that he somehow has less right to be inflammatory simply because he's on the opposite side of the fence from what I believe.

    Chez Pazienza: ABC News to Redeem Guy With No Redeeming Qualities Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Likely check, and no chance a firebreather gets through the Senate in any event.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s in Waxman-Markey? 2009

  • Not everyone who listens to firebreathing sermons is a firebreather themselves.

    "But that's what makes Obama's association with Wright so significant. He's not from Alabama." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Indeed, one of their chief gurus, Reaganite firebreather Michael Ledeen, says that if the Dominators have the courage to reject ‘clever diplomacy’ and ‘just wage total war’ to subjugate the Middle East, ‘our children will sing great songs about us years from now.’

    UH-OH News from Mad Plato 2008

  • Indeed, one of their chief gurus, Reaganite firebreather Michael Ledeen, says that if the Dominators have the courage to reject ‘clever diplomacy’ and ‘just wage total war’ to subjugate the Middle East, ‘our children will sing great songs about us years from now.’

    Archive 2008-08-01 News from Mad Plato 2008

  • Now, some six months of brandy basting later, taking a bite of my fruitcake makes me feel like a firebreather in training.

    Life's Little Updates 2005

  • Now, some six months of brandy basting later, taking a bite of my fruitcake makes me feel like a firebreather in training.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • Indeed, one of their chief gurus, Reaganite firebreather Michael Ledeen, says that if the Dominators have the courage to reject “clever diplomacy” and “just wage total war” to subjugate the Middle East, “our children will sing great songs about us years from now.”

    Think Progress » DeLay on Liberals’ Reaction to Terrorists: ‘You Can’t Go After These Wonderful People that Just Killed a Bunch of Americans’ 2006

  • What's truly creepy is that this guy seems to be some kind of avenging fundamentalist firebreather on top of everything else or so he says:

    Hullabaloo 2004

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