fire-eater

A performer who pretends to swallow fire.

A quarrelsome or belligerent person.

"But he is a regular fire eater!" "He's a bad man—a blamed bad man!" fluttered Danny Griswold. "That's right," nodded Lewis Little. "He really wants to fight with swords, I believe."

An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.

Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.

Alternative form of fire-eater (“extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War”).