SPITFIRE

PRONUNCIATION: (SPIT-fyr)

MEANING: noun: Someone high-spirited, quick-tempered, and outspoken.

ETYMOLOGY: Describing one who appears to spit fire. Earliest documented use: 1600. A synonym, also a tosspot word, is shitfire.
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SPITFARE - what you roast and then eat at a barbecue. See also SPITFIRE above, PITFIRE, and (if the grill overturns) SPILTFIRE

SPITFORE - how the angry Scotsman warned he was about to tee off

SPLITFIRE - what Moses had to do to bring his people out of Egypt across the Red Volcano