by Funnyguy5 April 6, 2018
a love interest, usually flirt via (text, social networking, im, real life) who returns the interest towards you, possible hook up, undefined hook up, or someone your "talking to"
your current flame
your current flame
Melanie: So are you seeing your bonfire this weekend?
Kelly: Which one?
"My bonfire just texted me"
"what'd he say?"
"its lyrics to an eagles song"
"I really like this guy and there are definitely some flames between us--he's my bonfire for sure."
Kelly: Which one?
"My bonfire just texted me"
"what'd he say?"
"its lyrics to an eagles song"
"I really like this guy and there are definitely some flames between us--he's my bonfire for sure."
by KellyVil08 May 17, 2009
An effeminate, probably gay man of large stature, musculature, and/or waist size.
A bear who is effeminate would be considered a bonfire.
The reason they are called this is that they are big and flaming, like their namesake.
A bear who is effeminate would be considered a bonfire.
The reason they are called this is that they are big and flaming, like their namesake.
by Codas August 10, 2011
(n). A homosexual male. Taken from the word 'bonfire', a flaming pile of sticks. A pile of sticks can also be called a faggot. A bonfire is a flaming pile of sticks, or a flaming faggot. Bonfire = Flaming Homosexual.
You butt pirates are a bunch of bonfires!
by King Slim August 10, 2004
by tushasubasu June 2, 2015
“When I was younger and confronted with hardship, my grandpa used to tell me, he said, ‘Sometimes you’ve gotta put the broom in the bonfire.’ He was right.”
by Miss M C Bliss February 7, 2021
An old tradition of burning of any objects that are regarded as sinful or immoral, as if a bonfire fueled by the condemned objects would erase the social problems associated with them.
The most infamous of such bonfires took place on February 7, 1497. The extremist Catholic priest Girolamo Savonarola organized a great public burning in Florence, a burning of what he saw as the frivolities of the Medici reign, and in particular that of Lorenzo de' Medici, whom Savonarola blamed for decadence and immorality (which the zealous priest defined as any art that did not portray Jesus or anything Biblical; nudity and paganism in contemporary art irked his one-track mindset).
While prostitutes were beaten and gay men were burned alive on his orders, Savonarola's campaign centered on the burning of books, paintings, sculptures, cosmetics, wigs, fancy clothing, mirrors, jewelry, masks, playing cards, scripts of secular songs, musical instruments, anything that Savonarola deemed extravagant.
A "bonfire of the vanities" can be as a metaphor to refer to the censorship or ban on "controversial" materials.
The most infamous of such bonfires took place on February 7, 1497. The extremist Catholic priest Girolamo Savonarola organized a great public burning in Florence, a burning of what he saw as the frivolities of the Medici reign, and in particular that of Lorenzo de' Medici, whom Savonarola blamed for decadence and immorality (which the zealous priest defined as any art that did not portray Jesus or anything Biblical; nudity and paganism in contemporary art irked his one-track mindset).
While prostitutes were beaten and gay men were burned alive on his orders, Savonarola's campaign centered on the burning of books, paintings, sculptures, cosmetics, wigs, fancy clothing, mirrors, jewelry, masks, playing cards, scripts of secular songs, musical instruments, anything that Savonarola deemed extravagant.
A "bonfire of the vanities" can be as a metaphor to refer to the censorship or ban on "controversial" materials.
The Bonfire of the Vanities was the result of a moral panic provoked by an extremist monk who was horrified by the nudity and pagan/secular images that were appearing in art as well as the perceived extravagance of the Medici, the family who ruled Florence and who was leading this artistic Renaissance and who Savonarola blamed for the economic and social problems that were beginning to plague the city. Any art or literature that he deemed "immoral" had to go.
Eventually, Savonarola's campaign turned against him and he was executed, but his example of censorship is one to be remembered as that matter is discussed.
Eventually, Savonarola's campaign turned against him and he was executed, but his example of censorship is one to be remembered as that matter is discussed.
by Lorelili August 1, 2011