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Arsonist, in slang
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firebug
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Word definitions for firebug in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
firebug \firebug\ n. a criminal who illegaly sets fire to property; an arsonist. Syn: arsonist, incendiary. 2. a brightly colored type of true bug that can exude a stain.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (taxlink Pyrrhocoris apterus species noshow=1), a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family ''(taxlink Pyrrhocoridae species noshow=1)''. 2 (context slang English) a pyromaniac or arsonist.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Firebug is a free and open-source web browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that facilitates the live debugging , editing, and monitoring of any website's CSS , HTML , DOM , XHR , and JavaScript . Firebug is licensed under the BSD license and was initially ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fire-bug , "arsonist, incendiary," 1869, from fire (n.) + bug (n.) in the "obsessed person" sense.
Usage examples of firebug.
And so Koljaiczek became a firebug, and not just once, for throughout West Prussia in the days that followed, sawmills and woodlots provided fuel for a blazing bicolored national sentiment.
Saturday night the same soldier drove a nine-passenger station wagon carrying Tough Tony and the other five men, picked up the Firebug, and continued on to the edge of Newark where a Big C truck hijacked the previous night was stashed.
Manfred's head and shoulders were abruptly invested with the tiny winkings of a thousand firebugs, but the sight faded against the red serpent shields, the Eika setting their trap and awaiting their prey, raising their spears.
They were sometimes referred to as the Holy Pyromaniacs or Firebugs for Christ.
Of course we have plenty of firebugs and pyromaniacs in a small way, but the big conspiracy has never come to my personal attention before.
Before I bring the raftsmen down the rivers from Kiev, through the canal and at last, after weeks of grueling toil, into the Vistula, there is a question to be considered: was Dückerhoff sure that this Wranka was Koljaiczek the firebug?
And so Koljaiczek became a firebug, and not just once, for throughout West Prussia in the days that followed, sawmills and woodlots provided fuel for a blazing bicolored national sentiment.
Since the bouts of Hebear and Hairyman the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun, the duskrose has choosed out Goatstown's hedges, twolips have pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, townland of twinedlights, the whitethorn and the redthorn have fairygeyed the mayvalleys of Knockmaroon, and, though for rings round them, during a chiliad of perihelygangs, the Formoreans have brittled the tooath of the Danes and the Oxman has been pestered by the Firebugs and the Joynts have thrown up jerrybuilding to the Kevanses and Little on the Green is childsfather to the City (Year!
Manfred’s head and shoulders were abruptly invested with the tiny winkings of a thousand firebugs, but the sight faded against the red serpent shields, the Eika setting their trap and awaiting their prey, raising their spears.