Meaning of fiery-tongued | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That breathes fire; fire-breathing.
2. That speaks or preaches with zeal, vivid imagery, and uncompromising urgency; vitriolic; acerbic.
   figuratively

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!”

“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.”

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