firebrand

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

firebrands

1.
A torch or other burning stick with a flame at one end.
The crowd cheered as a firebrand was tossed onto the huge pile of wood to start the traditional homecoming bonfire.
[…] he filled all their throats with it, so that those poor wretches were by it made to cough like foxes, crying, Ha, Pantagruel, how how thou addest greater heat to the firebrand that is in us.
2.
(figuratively)(figurative) An argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary; one who agitates against the status quo.
The member of the college's Communist League was a firebrand who would launch a sit-in or protest march at a moment's notice.
Đồng nghĩa: radical, revolutionary, troublemaker

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

radical revolutionary troublemaker

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English fyr-brand, furbrond, equivalent to fire + brand. Cognate with Feuerbrand firebrand.