Synonyms of the word

hothead

• n. (pejorative) One who angers easily or goes in search of arguments or fights.
• n. One who reacts quickly and without thinking carefully first.

adventurer

• n. One who enjoys adventures.
• n. A person who seeks a fortune in new and/or dangerous enterprises.
• n. A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
• n. A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
• n. (video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.

churl

• n. A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a free peasant (as opposed to a serf).
• n. A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
• n. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
• n. (Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.

crank

• adj. (slang) strange, weird, odd.
• adj. sick; unwell; infirm.
• adj. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
• adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
• n. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft…
• n. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
• n. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• n. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
• n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
• n. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave…
• n. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
• n. (US, slang) methamphetamine.
• n. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• n. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
• n. (slang) penis.
• v. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
• v. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
• v. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

crosspatch

• n. A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.

daredevil

• n. A person who engages in very risky behavior, especially one who is motivated by a craving for excitement…
• adj. Recklessly bold; adventurous.

fire-eater

• n. A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
• n. (figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
• n. (US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.

grouch

• n. A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
• n. One who is grumpy or irritable.
• v. (intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.

grump

• n. (informal) A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To complain.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To be grumpy.

harum-scarum

• adj. wild, careless, irresponsible.
• adv. wildly, carelessly, irresponsibly.

lunatic

• n. An insane person.
• adj. crazed, mad, insane, demented.

madcap

• adj. impulsive, hasty or reckless; capricious.
• n. An impulsive, hasty, capricious person.
• n. (obsolete) An insane person, a lunatic.

swashbuckler

• n. A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play.
• n. A daring adventurer.
• n. A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and lighthearted tone.

venturer

• n. (archaic) One who ventures; a traveller or explorer.
• n. (business) One who undertakes a business venture.