firebox

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From fire + box. In the sense of a redheaded woman, from box (“vagina”).

Barry Conant and his lieutenants had disappeared like snowflakes at the opening of the door of the firebox of a locomotive speeding through the storm. — Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel, Thomas William Lawson
“He up,” he said, “Miss Cahline say put hit on de table.” He came to the stove and spread his hands palm down above the firebox. — The sound and the fury, William Faulkner

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