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spitfire
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spit·fire  (sptfr)
n.
A quick-tempered or highly excitable person.
spitfire [ˈspɪtˌfaɪə]
n
a person given to outbursts of spiteful temper and anger, esp a woman or girl
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Noun1.spitfire - a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman)
emotional person - a person subject to strong states of emotion
Translations
spitfire [ˈspɪtˌfaɪəʳ] N → fierabrás mf
spitfire
n → Feuer speiender Drache; (= woman also) → Giftnudel f (inf)
spitfire [ˈspɪtˌfaɪəʳ] n she's a real spitfire → è una persona molto irascibile
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IT was in 1938 that the Minister for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, attended the opening of a huge new factory at Castle Bromwich in Birmingham, built at a cost of pounds 3 million, to produce Spitfires in the face of the looming threat of war.
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WORLD War II Spitfires flew from Ainsdale for the first time in 50 years during a special service.
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The picture of a Spitfire I used to illustrate a recent Memories story about, er, Spitfires, was not a Huddersfield Spitfire.
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