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hotspur
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hotspur has 2 senses
- hotspur(n = noun.person) harry hotspur, percy, sir henry percy - English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403); Array is a kind of soldier
- hotspur(n = noun.person) Array - a rash or impetuous person; Array is a kind of adventurer, venturer
CIDE DICTIONARY
hotspur, n. [Hot + spur.].
A rash, hot-headed man. Holinshed.
hotspur, a.
Violent; impetuous; headstrong. Spenser. Peacham. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
hotspur
Rashness
N rashness, temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion, overconfidence, presumption, audacity, precipitancy, precipitation, impetuosity, levity, foolhardihood, foolhardiness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, carelessness, desperation, Quixotism, knight-errantry, fire eating, gaming, gambling, blind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradise, too many eggs in one basket, desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu, Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus, adventurer, gambler, gamester, dynamitard, boomer, rash, incautious, indiscreet, imprudent, improvident, temerarious, uncalculating, heedless, careless, without ballast, heels over head, head over heels, giddy, wanton, reckless, wild, madcap, desperate, devil-may-care, hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained, headlong, headstrong, breakneck, foolhardy, harebrained, precipitate, impulsive, overconfident, overweening, venturesome, venturous, adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier, janty, jaunty, free and easy, off one's guard, post haste, a corps perdu, hand over head, tete baissee, headforemost, happen what may, come what may, neck or nothing, the devil being in one, non semper temeritas est felix, paucis temeritas est bono multis malo.
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