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Hotspur

noun

English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403). Synonyms: Harry Hotspur, Percy, Sir Henry Percy.

A rash or impetuous person.

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"Hotspur" Quotes from Famous Books

... has its Fabius, and also its Hotspur. Both are needed—the men of prudence and caution, anxious to avoid extreme courses, slow to commit themselves too far or to burn their boats with the river behind them; and the impetuous spirits, who ...

— Ulster's Stand For Union • Ronald McNeill

... is so,' answered Redgauntlet; 'for we have that before us which will brook no delay from indisposition—we have not, as Hotspur says, leisure ...

— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

... don't know," replied Isabel; "we have made some changes ourselves. John of Gaunt or Harry Hotspur might find fault with us for the same reason, giving up the 'good old customs' of rushes on the floor, for instance, and flagons of ale for breakfast. There were the stocks and the pillory too, and hanging for theft, and the torture of prisoners. Those were ...

— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge

Words linked to "Hotspur" : adventurer, Percy, Sir Henry Percy, venturer, soldier