piping hot
UK/ˌpaɪ.pɪŋ ˈhɒt//ˌpaɪpɪŋ ˈhɑt/
piping hot adjective: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piping, hot: very hot in a way that involves sizzling, crackling, or similar noises.
Adjective
piping hot (not comparable)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piping, hot: very hot in a way that involves sizzling, crackling, or similar noises.
- Near-synonyms: boiling hot, scalding hot, steaming hot, steaming, baking hot; see also Thesaurus:hot
- Don't touch the pie! It's piping hot, straight out of the oven.
- Synonyms:
- hissing hot, boiling hot, scalding hot, steaming hot, steaming, baking hot, hot, calid, choleric, heated
- Antonyms:
- freezing cold, freezing, ice-cold, icy, algid, Arctic, Baltic, boreal, brass monkeys, brumal
- Very hot.
- Watch out — that curling iron is still piping hot.
- You will see that my breakfast is piping hot,
And rub the clothes to a snowy whiteness1909, George Melville Baker, Pieces People Ask For, A Lesson to Lovers
- Synonyms:
- hissing hot, boiling hot, scalding hot, smoking hot, steaming hot, steaming, hot, calid, choleric, heated
- Antonyms:
- freezing cold, freezing, ice-cold, icy, algid, Arctic, Baltic, boreal, brass monkeys, brumal
piping hot meaning in Hindi, Kannada and Vietnamese
piping hot in Hindi
- very hot
- गर्मागर्म garmāgarm
piping hot in Kannada
- ಬಿಸಿಬಿಸಿಯಾದ, ಸುಡುತ್ತಿರುವ
piping hot in Vietnamese
- very hot
- nóng hổi, nóng hôi hổi
Synonyms of piping hot
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Antonyms
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Origin of piping hot
From Middle English. First attested circa second half of 14th century, from the similarity between the sizzling sound of food cooking in a frying pan and that of musical pipes, from Canterbury Tales http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2383 by Geoffrey Chaucer: :: "He singeth brokking¹ as a nightingale. / He sent her piment, mead, and spiced ale, / And wafers² piping hot out of the glede³: / And, for she was of town, he proffer'd meed." :: ¹ quavering, ² cakes, ³ coals
Words that rhyme with piping hot
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- blot
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about piping hot
- What does piping hot mean?
- Piping hot means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piping, hot: very hot in a way that involves sizzling, crackling, or similar noises.
- What is piping hot in Hindi?
- Piping hot in Hindi is गर्मागर्म (garmāgarm). See Piping hot meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is piping hot?
- Piping hot is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce piping hot?
- Piping hot is pronounced /ˌpaɪ.pɪŋ ˈhɒt/ (UK).
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: piping hot (page history and authors); piping hot (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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