"spit-fire" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Nancy Spencer, Heaven in My Hands: A Midwife's Stories of Birth & Life, page 119",
          "text": "He was a spit-fire! The typical little boy just on the verge of spilling out the dozens of words he'd accumulated, a cascade of sounds as he chattered from dawn to dusk.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Karen L. Cox, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture",
          "text": "Even the trailer for the film did not attempt to hide a connection with Gone with the Wind, proclaiming that the story was “a scarlet portrait of a gorgeous spit-fire.”",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Caroline H. Woods, Woman in Prison, page 170",
          "text": "And Harlan to report me, when he helped her break 'em. The little spit-fire!",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, M. Sethi, Catering Management : An Integrated Approach, page 102",
          "text": "Also the use of spit-fires for barbecueing meats in view of the customer serves a dual purpose of attracting customers as well as cooking.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor",
          "text": "The final side had two ovens fashioned inside the stone structure above a spit-fire.",
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          "ref": "2016, Jane Hardstaff, The Executioner's Daughter, page 154",
          "text": "On the frozen river, the spit-fires had burned out and the stalls were packing up.",
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          "ref": "2010, Nancy Spencer, Heaven in My Hands: A Midwife's Stories of Birth & Life, page 119",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Karen L. Cox, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture",
          "text": "Even the trailer for the film did not attempt to hide a connection with Gone with the Wind, proclaiming that the story was “a scarlet portrait of a gorgeous spit-fire.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2014, Caroline H. Woods, Woman in Prison, page 170",
          "text": "And Harlan to report me, when he helped her break 'em. The little spit-fire!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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          "text": "Also the use of spit-fires for barbecueing meats in view of the customer serves a dual purpose of attracting customers as well as cooking.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor",
          "text": "The final side had two ovens fashioned inside the stone structure above a spit-fire.",
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          "text": "On the frozen river, the spit-fires had burned out and the stalls were packing up.",
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