Spitfireとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

spit fire (三人称単数 現在形 spits fire, 現在分詞 spitting fire, 過去形 spat fire または spit fire, 過去分詞 spat fire)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spit,‎ fire.
2. To be extremely angry.
   • 2008, Nicholas J. Nigro, No Job? No Prob!, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2014, Moira Young, Raging Star, →ISBN, page 47:

     If Lugh saw that mess, he'd spit fire, I says.

   • 2015, Lorraine Kennedy, Dark Rider: A Western Native American Romance, page 8:

     As Angel suspected, May chewed nails and spit fire when the sheriff released her into her stepmother's custody.

3. (of eyes) To flash and reveal strong emotion.
   • 2010, Christina Crooks, L.A. Caveman (battle of the sexes, office romance):

     Her pretty gray-blue eyes no longer spit fire.

   • 2012, Karen Kay, War Cloud's Passion, →ISBN, page 141:

     Her eyes spit fire, but she nodded, if a quick jerk of her head could be called a nod.

   • 2013, Julia Mills, Her Dragon To Slay, →ISBN:

     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.

4. To speak with vehemence.
   • 2000, B. J. Lawry, Desert Heat, →ISBN, page 87:

     It would do no good to spit fire at him. He'd only laugh, and then he'd get his own way anyway.

   • 2006, Charles H. Spurgeon, John Ploughman's Talk: Or, Plain Advice for Plain People, →ISBN, page 123:

     Many look as if butter would not melt in their mouths, and yet can spit fire when it suits their purpose.

   • 2011, Thomas Hill Green & R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page 332:

     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.

5. To perform with skill and energy, especially when reciting poetry or rapping.
   • 2009, Pamela Best, Of Love, →ISBN:

     Her motive is simple — “To spit fire into microphones that she might inspire a generation; to rekindle revolution through the power of revelation."

   • 2012, Warren Wilson College, →ISBN:

     We spit fire, drink Coca-Cola, have dance parties, and are Big Brothers and Sisters.

   • 2015, T.N. Baker, Sheisty: Triple Crown Collection, →ISBN:

     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, Jupiter Reed, Wrecking Rainbows: Bundles of Wayward Poetry, →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.