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UK
/spˈɪtfaɪə/
]
NOUN
- a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman)
How To Use spitfire In A Sentence
- It's not often I meet a spitfire like you, peach.
- Nearly 6,000 enthusiasts flocked to the Aviation Viewing Park to see the show and a fly-past by the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, featuring a Lancaster bomber and Hurricane and Spitfire fighters.
- Many types of aircraft were replicated in mock-up form including Spitfires, Hurricanes, Wellingtons, Whitleys, and Havocs.
- In a dogfight near Venlo in The Netherlands, his Spitfire was hit but he still shot down a Messerschmitt.
- Her long, striking extensions and shapely arms undoubtedly would catch more eyes in a company with fewer spitfires and soubrettes.
- Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
- He was well known for his part in Gone with the Wind and had just starred with David Niven in The First of the Few, the story of the Spitfire.
- Less strong than Shephard Neame's flagship Bishop's Finger at 4.7 per cent, Spitfire is a full-bodied, rounded, clean beer with a hoppy flavour which is served at its best just below room temperature.
- He never took into consideration that we had two small children that I was still constantly getting up to during the night… or that our two little spitfires had drained me of most of my energy during the day.
- The Triumph Spitfire is a classic car.