Fiery-tongued
adj, adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 That breathes fire; fire-breathing.
"Obey, if you will, the law of the baser passions, - appetite, pride, selfishness, - but know, they will scourge you into realms where the air is hot with fiery-tongued scorpions, that will sting and torment your soul into unutterable agonies!"
- 2 That speaks or preaches with zeal, vivid imagery, and uncompromising urgency; vitriolic; acerbic. figuratively
"Ossian survives in him: behold that melancholy retrospect, that gloom, that melodious wail. And especially, as I have said, do his immediate ancestors survive in him, his sturdy, toiling, fiery-tongued, clannish yeoman progenitors: all are summed up here; this is the net result available for literature in the nineteenth century."
- 1 Breathing fire.
"He would never again streak fiery-tongued across a midnight sky spreading death and shuddering fear."
Example
More examples"Obey, if you will, the law of the baser passions, - appetite, pride, selfishness, - but know, they will scourge you into realms where the air is hot with fiery-tongued scorpions, that will sting and torment your soul into unutterable agonies!"
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