burny

Adjective

burny

1. (colloquial) Tending to burn.
   • My eyes seem very burny, especially the right eye.1972, "Italian patient", quoted in Eliot Freidson, Medical Men and Their Work (Walter De Gruyter Incorporated)
   • I suppose I must have read them at some point, but mostly I came into contact with them by means of burnier-than-thou dialogues with old-timers—or anxious, status-conscious noobs—who wanted to point out all the ways in which my burn was the wrong sort of burn.2015, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN
2. (colloquial) Very hot.
   • The lightbrown dust is very burny on my feet. Just have to put up with it, I suppose, ...2003, Tony Roper, Rikki Fulton's The Reverend I.M. Jolly: One Deity at a Time, Sweet Jesus, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN
   • She lays the backs of her fingers against the girl's cheek — burny, rough — and blows on the sleeping face, rotating her head to let the breeze play over forehead, eyes, nose, cheeks, chin.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 3