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hot-making

hot-making adjective: embarrassing.

Adjective

hot-making (comparative more hot-making, superlative most hot-making)

  1. (dated) embarrassing
    • "Now gather, and surmise," said Polonius. The reader will have to do his own gathering and surmising in connection with this, to use the current phrase, hot-making play.1934, James Agate, First Nights, page 26

Forms of hot-making

comparativemore hot-making
superlativemost hot-making

Questions about hot-making

What does hot-making mean?
Hot-making means embarrassing.
What part of speech is hot-making?
Hot-making is an adjective.

Words near hot-making in the dictionary

  1. hot-list
  2. hot-listed
  3. hot-listing
  4. hot-lists
  5. hot-livered
  6. hot-making
  7. hot-milk cake
  8. hot-milk cakes
  9. hot-mix
  10. hot-mixes
  11. hot-mouthed

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