hot-blooded

Adjective

hot-blooded (comparative more hot-blooded or hotter-blooded, superlative most hot-blooded or hottest-blooded)

1. Easily angered or excited.
   • So much stronger and hotter-blooded than the motive of gain is that other motive, that we call racial arrogance and lust of domination when displayed in Europe, but describe more indulgently when our countrymen act upon it in Africa.1941, Norman Leys, “European Taxation and Related Matters”, in The Colour Bar in East Africa, London: The Hogarth Press […], page 86
   • Amphitryon said finally: “Creon says that he was the unwitting cause of Menoeceus’ death. I had this from Heniocha, in whom he confided his secret.” / “How could that be?” Heracles asked. / “Creon was then about the same age that you are now, and hot-blooded. At least, hotter-blooded than he is...1972, Caroline Gordon, The Glory of Hera, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 215
2. Having strong sexual urges; easily aroused.
   • Anyway, Vincent admired the monks for their apparently cheerful stoicism; and, in an abstract, theoretical fashion, he envied them, even as he almost immediately instinctively realized that he could never become one of them. Or could he? Many of the monks, quite obviously, were younger and...1976, Patrick Skene Catling, Bliss Incorporated, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN, page 48
   • The copper widow was the most hot-blooded woman I have ever known. She openly rejected all our women. She would scarcely speak to them. She lived only for our men. She talked easily and intelligently with them or rubbed up against them. A few men were almost always near her. She drew them to her...1983, James [Archibald] Houston, “Pot Latch”, in Eagle Song: An Indian Saga Based on True Events, San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, →ISBN, page 129

   Synonyms:

   lustful, passionate, excitable

3. Light-bodied and lively in temperament, with high speed and endurance.
4. Synonym of warm-blooded.
   • For my own part, judging from experiments ranging from the cold-blooded to the hottest-blooded animals—from the alligator to the common fowl—I am constrained to say, that after decapitation, the sensational phenomena and voluntary motion are far more strongly indicated in the headless body, than in...1851 June, Bennet Dowler, Experimental Researches, Illustrative of the Functional Oneness, Unity, and Diffusion, of Nervous Action; in Opposition to the Anatomical Assumption, of Four Sets of Nerves...
   • By taking little or no exercise, in passing most of the time in sleep, and residing in a tropical climate, or in a temperate one during the hottest summer months, while the experiment lasts, it will be found that the system needs but little food, the waste of the tissues being reduced to a minimum...1887, Henry C[adwalader] Chapman, “Food”, in Treatise on Human Physiology. For the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine., Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea Brothers & Co., page 85

   Synonyms:

   warm-blooded