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spit fire en · NOUN
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(alt-of, nonstandard) Nonstandard form of spitfire.
His intention was to steal cattle all the way to Mexico but the vivid memory of that spit fire's lips altered his plans.
2011, Sue Robinett, Shana; Legend of Mah-cou-ah Her-moomch Eh Tivo (woman Walks Like a Man), →ISBN:Oh yes Ms. Bobbyjean was a spit fire alright.
2012, C. L. Ellis, Hussy, →ISBN, page 201:Her name is Marisol who lives in Spain, a spit fire of a gal, pretty as a daisy to say the least who loves to entertain her friends and has become with no fault of her own the mother/ house nanny to her family of four men, her father, and her three brothers.
2013, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories In Social Media Web Sites Got Me Committed In The Psychiatric Ward At Bellevue Hospital., →ISBN, page 59:
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A cooking fire with a spit over it.
They positioned their fires upwind of Nathanial so as to ensure he smelt the food cooking on the open spit fires.
2014, John Gearing, The Journeyman Sagas: The Quest for Fallenjour, →ISBN:That's why," he said, holding up his knife so they could see it gleam in the light of the spit fire, "cutting with my method actually sharpens my knife.
1982, Ted Mancuso, Frank Hill, Kung Fu for Young People: An Introduction to Karate and Kung Fu, →ISBN:Karl and the boys snared all sorts of birds to cook on the spit fire — buntings and starlings, wild geese, mallards, and pigeons.
2007, Constance Leeds, The Silver Cup, →ISBN, page 17:
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spit fire en · VERB
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(idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To be extremely angry.
As Angel suspected, May chewed nails and spit fire when the sheriff released her into her stepmother's custody.
2015, Lorraine Kennedy, Dark Rider: A Western Native American Romance, page 8:If Lugh saw that mess, he'd spit fire, I says.
2014, Moira Young, Raging Star, →ISBN, page 47:If somebody cuts you off on the highway, don't spit fire—forget about it and arrive at your intended destination in one piece and as relaxed as possible.
2008, Nicholas J. Nigro, No Job? No Prob!, →ISBN:
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(idiomatic, intransitive, slang) Of the eyes, to flash and reveal strong emotion.
Her eyes spit fire, but she nodded, if a quick jerk of her head could be called a nod.
2012, Karen Kay, War Cloud's Passion, →ISBN, page 141:It described her to a tee; from her fiery mane of red hair to her beautiful emerald eyes that spit fire when she was angry or frustrated.
2013, Julia Mills, Her Dragon To Slay, →ISBN:Her pretty gray-blue eyes no longer spit fire.
2010, Christina Crooks, L.A. Caveman (battle of the sexes, office romance):
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(idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To speak with vehemence.
Many look as if butter would not melt in their mouths, and yet can spit fire when it suits their purpose.
2006, Charles H. Spurgeon, John Ploughman's Talk: Or, Plain Advice for Plain People, →ISBN, page 123:The beneficed ministers, however, stimulated by missives from the Scotch kirk, now in arms for Charles II., continued, says the gentle Mrs. Hutchinson, to 'spit fire out of their pulpits,' and even the rout of their allies at Dunbar, though it made their tongues less dangerous, did not make them more smooth.
2011, Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page 332:It would do no good to spit fire at him. He'd only laugh, and then he'd get his own way anyway.
2000, B. J. Lawry, Desert Heat, →ISBN, page 87:
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(idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To perform with skill and energy, especially when reciting poetry or rapping.
Honey's was packed, but that didn't always mean you were gonna make a lot of money, 'cause fifty percent of the niggas wanted to see the pussy spit fire for a fucking dollar.
2015, T.N. Baker, Sheisty: Triple Crown Collection, →ISBN:We spit fire, drink Coca-Cola, have dance parties, and are Big Brothers and Sisters.
2012, Warren Wilson College, →ISBN:Her motive is simple — “To spit fire into microphones that she might inspire a generation; to rekindle revolution through the power of revelation."
2009, Pamela Best, Of Love, →ISBN:A bouquet of chaotic words salvaged from the unceasing winter storm that churns regularly in the seemingly quiet little mind of a seventeen-year-old idealist who loves to spit fire at the world when she’s feeling fussy.
2015, Jupiter Reed, Wrecking Rainbows: Bundles of Wayward Poetry, →ISBN:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spit, fire.
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