Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An incendiary; one who incites to strife.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
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- noun obsolete An
incendiary ; aninciter ofquarrels .
Etymologies
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French bouter to thrust, put + feu fire.
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noun) - Literally "to set fire." An incendiary, firebrand, agitator; from French.
--C.A.M. Fennell's Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, 1892
January 14, 2018