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hissing hot

hissing hot adjective: very hot.

Adjective

hissing hot (not comparable)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) Very hot.
    • And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that,—hissing hot,—think of that, Master Brook.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • […] a hissing hot fever laid hold of him; and the doctors, with all their rank and file of phials and bolusses, could hardly drive him out of his veins.1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey: or, The Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act II, p. 30

Examples of hissing hot in a sentence

  • Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot […]1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
  • When a man has lived in such hissing hot places that he is fain to spend his life under cover, he is glad to keep abroad in this green English sweetness.1904, Justin Huntly McCarthy, chapter 1, in The Lady of Loyalty House, New York: Harper, page 10:
  • Mrs Willy Nilly full of tea to her double-chinned brim broods and bubbles over her coven of kettles on the hissing hot range always ready to steam open the mail.1954, Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood […] , New York: New Directions, page 35:

Synonyms of hissing hot

Questions about hissing hot

What does hissing hot mean?
Hissing hot means very hot.
How do you use hissing hot in a sentence?
Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot […]
What part of speech is hissing hot?
Hissing hot is an adjective.

Words near hissing hot in the dictionary

  1. hissiness
  2. hissing
  3. hissing adder
  4. hissing cockroach
  5. hissing cockroaches
  6. hissing hot
  7. hissingly
  8. hissings
  9. Hissong
  10. Hissongs
  11. Hissrich

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