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fire-breather
fire-breather
One who is intensely and aggressively passionate and fiercely determined. Likened to a dragon or other beast able to shoot streams of fire from its mouth. The company's new boss proved to be a real fire-breather, and in just a few months she turned a once-middling local business into a national powerhouse.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Ignacio | | eeg-NAH-thyo (Spanish), eeg-NAH-syo (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |
| Audrey | | AWD-ree | English |
| Ishild | | - | Ancient Germanic (Hypothetical) |
| Ayomide | | - | Western African, Yoruba |
| Sadhbh | | SIEV (Irish) | Irish, Irish Mythology |
| Foma | | fah-MAH | Russian |