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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