spitfire

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cannon.
  2. A person with a fiery temper, someone easily provoked to anger, especially a woman or girl.
    — 1801, Peter Viereck, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin., Volume ⅩⅠⅠⅠ, by John Nichols (arranged by Thomas Sheridan), p. 143, published in London "―But however provoked, are your scribbling spitfires never to be satisfied?"
  3. A larva of the spitfire sawfly, Perga affinis.

词形变化

spitfires plural

词汇关系

相关词
shitfire

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Etymology tree
English spit firedeverb.
English spitfire
Deverbal from spit fire.
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