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SPITFIRE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spitfire mean?
• SPITFIRE (noun)
The noun SPITFIRE has 1 sense:
1. a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman)
Familiarity information: SPITFIRE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("spitfire" is a kind of...):
emotional person (a person subject to strong states of emotion)
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