dragonfire

noun

Etymology

From dragon + fire.

  1. inherited from *péh₂wr̥
  2. inherited from *fōr — “fire
  3. inherited from *fuir
  4. inherited from fȳr — “fire
  5. inherited from fyr
  6. compounded as dragonfire — “dragon + fire

Definitions

  1. Fire produced by a dragon.

    • “Spurs!” Imbri sent in a dream like a blast of dragonfire. “Hotter than the breath of Baal, your thought! But I don’t use the spurs, once my steed is tame,” he argued.
    • With a roar of dragonfire something enormous blazed by overhead, as if the Moon itself were dropping onto us.
    • At the same time, it made me desperate to get to Ember. To get us all out of here and find someplace safe before the world exploded in a hellstorm of dragonfire.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dragonfire. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA