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.
- 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.
- Their wings and wingcases are patterned like the flower of the spitfire tree.