hotspur

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HOT'SPUR, noun [hot and spur.] A man violent, passionate, heady, rash or precipitate. 1. A kind of pea of early growth. HOT'SPUR, adjective Violent; impetuous.
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