spitfires in English
noun
1
a person with a fierce temper.
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.
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1. She also escorted aircraft carriers carrying Supermarine Spitfires.
2. Synonyms for Bacchantes include maenads, fury, shrews, viragos, termagants, vixens, hags, harridans, spitfires and harpies
3. USS Wasp and HMS Eagle deliver a second contingent of Spitfires to Malta in Operation Bowery.
4. One of my newspaper database searches turned up Jerry Tonelli, star player of the Toronto Spitfires, a wheelchair basketball team.