Farewell "Little Spitfire"

[srgalahad]

Annie Penrose, who has died aged 100, gave her childhood nickname – "Little Spitfire" – to the world's most celebrated fighter aircraft.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/8849075/Annie-Penrose.html

[Dev One]

But was she herself named after the earlier Vickers aircraft called Spitfire?
Keith

[Tako_Kichi]

The term 'spitfire' for a feisty woman was in use long before aircraft were invented.

[brad kaste]

spit·fire (sphttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/ibreve.gifthttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/prime.giffhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/imacr.gifrhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/lprime.gif)n. A quick-tempered or highly excitable person.


If I'm not mistaken,.............Scarlett O'Hara was referred to as a spitfire from the Margaret Mitchell novel "Gone with the Wind."