"spitfire" meaning in English

See spitfire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: spitfires [plural]
Etymology: A compound of spit + fire Etymology templates: {{compound|en|spit|fire}} spit + fire Head templates: {{en-noun}} spitfire (plural spitfires)
  1. A cannon.
    Sense id: en-spitfire-en-noun-wPWFqd7f
  2. A person with a fiery temper, someone easily provoked to anger, especially a woman or girl. Categories (topical): Artillery, People
    Sense id: en-spitfire-en-noun-vNk6V5BT Disambiguation of Artillery: 3 97 Disambiguation of People: 0 100 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English exocentric verb-noun compounds, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English exocentric verb-noun compounds: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 96 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: shitfire

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spit",
        "3": "fire"
      },
      "expansion": "spit + fire",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A compound of spit + fire",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spitfires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spitfire (plural spitfires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "shitfire"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A cannon."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitfire-en-noun-wPWFqd7f",
      "links": [
        [
          "cannon",
          "cannon"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English exocentric verb-noun compounds",
          "parents": [
            "Exocentric verb-noun compounds",
            "Verb-noun compounds",
            "Exocentric compounds",
            "Verb-object compounds",
            "Compound terms",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Artillery",
          "orig": "en:Artillery",
          "parents": [
            "Weapons",
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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\n\"―But however provoked, are your scribbling spitfires never to be satisfied?\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person with a fiery temper, someone easily provoked to anger, especially a woman or girl."
      ],
      "id": "en-spitfire-en-noun-vNk6V5BT",
      "links": [
        [
          "fiery",
          "fiery"
        ],
        [
          "temper",
          "temper"
        ],
        [
          "provoke",
          "provoke"
        ],
        [
          "anger",
          "anger"
        ],
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Spitfire (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "spitfire"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English exocentric verb-noun compounds",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Artillery",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spit",
        "3": "fire"
      },
      "expansion": "spit + fire",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A compound of spit + fire",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spitfires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spitfire (plural spitfires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "shitfire"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A cannon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cannon",
          "cannon"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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\n\"―But however provoked, are your scribbling spitfires never to be satisfied?\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person with a fiery temper, someone easily provoked to anger, especially a woman or girl."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fiery",
          "fiery"
        ],
        [
          "temper",
          "temper"
        ],
        [
          "provoke",
          "provoke"
        ],
        [
          "anger",
          "anger"
        ],
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Spitfire (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "spitfire"
}

Download raw JSONL data for spitfire meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.