fiery-tongued
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That breathes fire; fire-breathing.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He would never again streak fiery-tongued across a midnight sky spreading death and shuddering fear."
Inflected Forms
more fiery-tongued (comparative)
most fiery-tongued (superlative)