spitfire

IPA: spˈɪtfˈaɪɝ

noun

  • A cannon.
  • A person with a fiery temper, someone easily provoked to anger, especially a woman or girl.
  • (historical) A single-seat fighter used by the RAF and allies during World War II, especially during the Battle of Britain.
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Examples of "spitfire" in Sentences

  • Spitfire was helping me earlier on that.
  • The Aunt is a spitfire woman and an atheist.
  • The Aunt is a spitfire communist and an atheist.
  • But for our situation there, not as good as the Spitfire.
  • It was equipped with the Hurricane and later the Spitfire.
  • The ancestors of the spitfire beetle are the blister beetle.
  • We still call a hasty person a "spitfire", and a calumniator
  • The false spitfire bird is a close relative of the Spitfire bird.
  • But it was really the Hurricane and not the Spitfire that won BoB.
  • Their evolution coincides with the spitfire tree and the spitfire bird.
  • Truth and honesty: Betty was known as a spitfire from her first breath.
  • Their wings and wingcases are patterned like the flower of the spitfire tree.
  • You know, Elizabeth Edwards has been described as a spitfire, highly educated.
  • Skillman, NJ, is a real "spitfire," according to her parents, and is super outgoing.
  • These came from the direction of Mafeking, that place having proved too much a "spitfire" for their liking.
  • The Aviation Heritage Museum, Australia began with the exhibition of the historical 'spitfire', and after a few years it was followed by the 'Lancaster bomber', which was associated with the Second World War.
  • Reading that word in a book drives me completely bat-f*ck crazy since I'm reading Corambis I'm going to channel one of the characters - Mildmay : I was chatting about this with my best friend, the lovely Starfire, and for her the 'hit the wall' word is 'spitfire'.
  • Through a review of Army reports and the memories of a fellow POW tracked down in New Jersey, The Associated Press was able to reconstruct the conditions under which the young man — called a "spitfire" and the "life of the party" — starved to death in a prisoner of war camp.

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