hotspur
Americannoun
noun
noun
Other Word Forms
- hotspurred adjective
Etymology
Origin of hotspur
1425–75; late Middle English; after Sir Henry Percy, to whom it was applied as a nickname
Example Sentences
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More significant men of his time can be discussed without passion because they are inextricably woven into a tapestry of the past, but this hotspur refuses to die.
From Reuters
Did they ever think that they too are traitors, and that they are as legally deserving of a halter as the madest secession hotspur of South Carolina?
From Project Gutenberg
“You try telling that hotspur Phaeton why he was reined in, or rosy-fingered Aurora why I had to shove her in the face,” Hermes archly tells the reader.
From New York Times
“Oh! is it somebody else ... you don’t mean to say it’s another hotspur applying for a passage in the real Thunder Bird when you start the big rocket off for the moon, eh?”
From Project Gutenberg
Events temporarily showed that the kaiser concurred more in his view than that of the hotspurs.
From Project Gutenberg
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