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Burnfire

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A bonfire. nonstandard

    "It may ha' been wicked, but there 'twas, an' the thought kep' arter me, till all I could think of was the chist; an' byme-by I says to Mary Ellen, one mornin', ' Le's open it to-day an' make a burnfire !'"

Etymology

An alteration (due to its association with burn) of Early Modern English boonfire, bondfire, bounfire (“bonfire”). More at bonfire.

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