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SPITFIRE

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

• SPITFIRE (noun)

Sense 1

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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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