spitfire
- n a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman)
- It is a mess of pagan rites, political wrongs, an opera bouffe general (Hugo Haas), vociferous emerald miners, and the love of a bus driver (John Raitt) for a high-born spitfire .
- Daughter of Chief Powhatan, she had to be a bit of a spitfire to get Dad's attention.