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单词 hot-livered
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hot-liveredadj.

Brit. /ˌhɒtˈlɪvəd/, U.S. /ˈhɑtˈlɪvərd/
Forms: see hot adj. and n.1 and livered adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hot adj., livered adj.
Etymology: < hot adj. + livered adj. In sense 1 probably punningly after livery n.In quot. 1981 at sense 2 after Malay panas hati ardent, excitable < panas warm, hot + hati liver (as the seat of emotions), heart.
1. Of a person: having a red face, attributed to drunkenness. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective] > with good living
hot-livered1594
rubicund1605
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F The burgers and dunstical incorporationers of Wittenberg in their distinguished liueries, their distinguished liuerie faces I mene, for they were mest of them hot liuered dronkards, and had all the coate coulours of sanguin, purple, crimson, copper, carnation that were to be had in their countenaunces.
2. Excitable, irascible; cf. hot-tempered adj. (b) at hot adj. and n.1 Compounds 3. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person)
hotOE
wooda1250
hastivec1300
irous1303
hastya1350
angrya1387
melancholiousa1393
quicka1400
irefulc1400
melancholyc1450
turnec1480
iracundiousa1492
passionatea1500
fumish1523
irascible1530
wrothful1535
fierya1540
warm1547
choleric1556
hot at hand1558
waspish1566
incensive1570
bilious1571
splenative1593
hot-livered1599
short1599
spitfire1600
warm-tempered1605
temperless1614
sulphurous1616
angryable1662
huffy1680
hastish1749
peppery1778
quick-tempered1792
inflammable1800
hair-triggered1806
gingery1807
spunky1809
iracund1821
irascid1823
wrathy1828
frenzy1859
gunpowdery1868
gunpowderous1870
tempersome1875
exacerbescent1889
tempery1905
lightningy1906
temperish1925
short-fused1979
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ix. 29 Ignorant hotliuered fellowes, of an vnseasoned zeale.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 6 A capricious Pædantie of hot-liver'd Grammarians.
?1766 D. Garrick Cymon iv. 42 Before I would follow unlawful game to please a hot-liver'd enchantress..I would thrust my pipe thro' my tabor, chuck it into the river, and myself after it.
1827 R. M. Bird Caridorf iv. ii. 120 Must these hot-livered lordlings go so far in their iniquities as to take life?
1981 Amer. Ethnologist 8 477 Angry behavior, whether indulged in by the mad or the sane, is called panas hati (hot-livered), since the liver is considered to be the seat of emotions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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