red-hotadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈrɛdˌhɒt/, U.S.

/ˈrɛdˌhɑt/

Forms:

α. see red adj. and n. and hot adj.

β. see red adj. and n. and het adj.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., hot adj.

Etymology: < red adj. + hot adj. Compare earlier red-glowing adj. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1d(b), and later red heat n.With β. forms compare het adj.¹ and discussion at that entry.

A. adj.

1. Of metal, a fire, etc.: that is so hot as to glow red; at red heat (red heat n. 2).See early quots. at sense A. 3a for figurative use.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > specific degree

red-hot?a1425

rubificatea1500

white-hot1587

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 307 (MED) Þat iren schal be maad hoot til it bicome reed.]

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 183 (MED) Hete a gobet of a mylne stone in þe fire oþer of sinder of iren & make it rede hote.

c1480 (a1400) St. Christina 242 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 405 He ane oyne gert be mad red het.

?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 683 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 79 The best counsayle that I now wott..Ys to make an ovyn as redd hott As euer yt can be made with fere.

1598 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) II. 46 Thay hett ane pair of taingis of irne in the fyre, quhill the blaidis thairof wes reid-hett.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. i. 61 The Iron of it selfe, though heate red hot [etc.] .

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 707 To prevent fire, which they greatly fear'd from the Red hot Bullets shot into it.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 357 Stones..glowing hot, and when broken exactly resembling red hot iron.

1783 Philos. Trans. 73 227 When the metal is red-hot, it melts and inflames instantaneously.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 346 He..placed upon the fire A brazen pot to boil, and made red hot The points of spits.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 189 This crack then serves for the passage of steam and other vapours, with showers of red-hot ashes.

1939 Fortune Nov. 78 (heading) Red-hot drill steel goes looping.

1955 K. Hutton & A. Swallow Chem. for Gen. Sci. xvii. 250 Hold it [sc. a pin] until red-hot in a flame.

1977 Zigzag Apr. 47/3 There's no way I'd listen to their album..not even if Nazis were standing over me with red hot pokers.

1988 S. Naipaul Hot Country i. 4 They would be tortured, branded with red-hot irons.

1995 E. Arthur Antarctic Navigation 780 A magma chamber is like a gigantic mixing bowl, in which the red-hot magma is crystallized when it touches the cold rocks which are surrounding it.

2. figurative. (Cf. hot adj. 8.)

a. Of a thing, action, feeling, etc.: burning, urgent, violent, furious; fervent, passionate.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > subject to passion or strong emotion

passionate?a1425

passionablec1475

vehementa1492

affectionate1534

red-hot1593

salamandry1610

hot-bloodeda1616

salamandrous1711

warm-blooded1831

passionful1842

brimstony1885

1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe xxxv. 23 She pities not to thinke vpon my smart..For there the torch of my red-hot desier Greeues.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 35 I will..leave the red-hot question to them that dare handle it.

1703 D. Defoe Hymn to Pillory 5 Doctors in scandall these are grown, For Red-hot Zeal and Furious Learning known.

1793 A. Young Example of France (ed. 3) 157 The red hot Maratism of the miscreant Society.

1852 J. L. Motley Let. 18 May in Corr. (1889) I. v. 142 Some singeing, scorching, red-hot review.

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. xiii. 316 Of Fermor's redhot savagery on Cüstrin, it is lamentably necessary we should say something.

1879 E. K. Bates Egyptian Bonds II. viii. 207 Oscar strikes up a red-hot flirtation with some..country beauty.

1955 Times 16 May 3/3 The strident militancy of red hot Socialism.

1993 Golf Mag. Mar. 59/1 I experienced such a flush of red-hot anger that I walked up to the ball and whacked it.

b. Of a person: highly inflamed or excited; fiery; violently enthusiastic, extreme (in some view or principle).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [adjective] > inflamed with passion

fire-hotOE

eschaufedc1374

on firea1393

inflammatec1450

inflamed1526

enkindled1549

boiling1579

seething1590

heated1595

red-hot1598

aflame1632

on flame1656

ablaze1819

burnt1859

incandescent1859

1598 T. Rogers Celestiall Elegies sig. A7 Red hote with rage whose heart with griefe doth bleede, I come from Ioue.

1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iii. sig. E ^v I shall expect my wife anon red hot with zeale.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 171 I told you Sir, they were red-hot with drinking.

c1680 Royal-buss in State-poems (1697) 43 Red hot with Wine and Whore, He kickt the Commons out of door.

1702 True Picture Anc. Tory 61 We thought the Fighting-Men had been as red hot Tories as our Selves.

1758 J. Wesley Jrnl. 26 Nov. in Wks. (1872) II. 464 A red-hot Predestinarian, talking of God's ‘blowing whole worlds to hell’.

1832 Gentleman's Mag. May 435/1 He must be a red-hot reformer indeed who can regard these playful trifles as having any deeper intention than [etc.].

1845 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 255 It has..ridded Keyhaven of a redhot young gunner.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood viii. 49 Edwin Drood's coolness, so far from being infectious, makes him red-hot.

1937 Pic May 15 Joe is a red-hot baseball fan.

2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Mar. a14 ‘He [sc. Ken Livingstone] used to be a red-hot lefty, and he wants to show he's still got a little of the Che Guevara fire in him,’ Johnson said.

3. slang (originally U.S.).

a. Of a person or thing: up-to-the-minute, brand new; exciting, sensational, dramatic. Cf. hot adj. 10b.Early quots. are figurative uses of sense A. 1, indicating intensity or rapidity of activity as if overheating.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [adjective]

stirring1421

excitative1490

rousing1576

animating1595

excitant1608

exciteful?1615

spirit-stirringa1616

spiritous1624

excitatinga1643

exagitating1646

fermentive1656

awakening1694

electrifying1746

upstirring1751

electrical1760

thrilling1768

excitive1774

proceleusmatic1775

electric1789

inspiriting1796

fermentitious1807

exciting1811

red-hot1835

hair-raising1838

suscitating1840

arousing1841

sizzling1845

zesty1853

excitory1861

throbbing1864

buzzing1882

ding-dong1887

thrillful1887

stir-up1890

large1895

thrilly1896

high voltage1909

voltaic1920

sizzly1936

Boy's Own1967

hot shit1967

crunk1995

1835 N.-Y. Mirror 23 May 1/2 In the newspaper,..there is news, red-hot with the velocity of its arrival, from Russia and the Rocky Mountains.

1880 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 16 Dec. After a long and arduous search after news on Wednesday morning we..ran down a certain young man in town who opened up a fire of red hot news,..the challenge and duel which was fought on Saturday last.

1882 W. R. Plum Mil. Telegraph During Civil War i. 14 At this time when every hour was pregnant with great events, only government messages had the right of wire. In the expressive language of operators, the lines were kept ‘red-hot’ with military dispatches.

1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 19 Feb. 6/1 A red-hot newsy journal.

1888 J. Runciman Chequers 116 You take the fellows in town that make their living after dark... There's some red-hot ones up—you know where—in Piccadilly.

1891 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Dec. 97 Suddenly a red-hot new idea came whistling down into my camp.

1904 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Eri xi. 205 ‘“Fightin' Fred Starlight, the Boy Rover of the Pacific”,’ he read aloud. ‘Humph! Is it good?’ ‘Bet your life! It's a red-hot story.’

1915 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith, Journalist v. 33 My idea is that Cosy Moments should become red-hot stuff..such that the public will wonder why we do not print it on asbestos.

1928 B. Johnston Let. 23 Sept. in B. Johnston Letters Home 1926–1945 (1998) 21 I don't know how to thank you & Marcus for the wonderful time we had in London, it was absolutely ‘red-hot’.

1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July 86 A red hot pimp like you say you is, ain't got no business in the barrel.

1977 Belfast Tel. 24 Jan. 18/6 The clinching of these red-hot finals must be hailed as another major breakthrough for the sport.

2001 Boston Herald (Nexis) 16 Feb. s3 Anthony Hopkins is the red hot actor of the moment, reaping praise and magazine covers for his depiction of a monstrous killer.

b. Jazz. Of music or a musician: very lively, vigorous, energetic. See also red-hot mama n. at Compounds 2 and hot adj. 12h.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of

Chicagoan1861

bad1897

hot1918

red-hot1918

soft1921

low-down1922

sweet1924

barrel-house1926

New Orleans1926

straight1926

crazy1927

dirty1927

hotcha1930

jungle1935

solid1935

traditional jazz1935

powerhouse1937

gutty1939

riffy1939

jivey1944

Kansas City1946

cool1948

West Coast1949

far-out1954

nutty1955

swinging1955

mainstream1957

Afro-Latin1958

1918 Christensen's Ragtime Rev. Jan. 2/1 Sweet Baby Blues - A red hot jazz number (orchestration 15 cents).

1924 Metronome Aug. 76/1 Modulations and jazz endings for jazz novelty orchestras. Make your orchestra numbers red hot.

1926 Melody Maker Feb. 9/2 Art Christmas, the first trumpet, is also a red-hot ‘dirt’ sax. player.

1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz ii. 58 Dorsey is a red-hot stylist and technician [on the saxophone].

1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 69 A red-hot bass player, seventy-nine years old, a proud Creole.

1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy v. 132 I first heard ‘Paper Doll’ sung in the ‘red-hot’ fashion by an American star crooner.

1977 J. Wainwright Do Nothin' xi. 183 It was jive and blues; either red-hot or smoochy.

2000 News of World (Nexis) 10 Dec. New Orleans..is one of the most fascinating places on earth... Red-hot music still rings out in bars and cafes.

4. Australian. Unfair, unreasonable. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [adjective]

unrighteOE

unrightfulOE

wrongousa1200

wrongfulc1311

unevenc1380

unjustc1384

untrue1393

injustc1430

unreasonablec1440

unduec1450

inique1521

unequal1535

wry1561

undeserved?c1570

justless1578

unrighted1608

unequitable1643

inequitable1667

unfair1724

iniquitablea1734

unsportsmanlike1754

unsportsmanly1776

unsporting1859

below the belt1892

red-hot1896

society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [adjective] > unfair

unmethea1300

unevenc1380

inique1521

unequal1535

unegall1589

unequitable1643

inequitable1667

unfair1713

iniquitablea1734

unsportsmanlike1754

unsportsmanly1776

rough1801

unsporting1859

below the belt1892

red-hot1896

1896 H. Lawson While Billy Boils 281 When..she paused for breath, he drew a long one, gave a short whistle, and, said: ‘Well, it's red-hot!’

1907 A. Wright Keane of Kalgoorlie 107 ‘It's red 'ot,’ put in Dave, ‘th'way these 'ere owners makes er pore man give 'em a lump in th' sweep.’

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 59 A red hot price.

1980 Sun (Sydney) 22 Feb. 21/4 (headline) Tomato prices are red hot.

B. n.

1. A person who is very enthusiastic (about a cause, an issue, etc.). Chiefly in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > enthusiast for person or thing

votary1594

well-willer1607

lief-hebber1653

enthusiast1748

amateur1771

fanatic1790

red-hot1835

freak1908

hound1926

fan1928

televisionary1928

tifoso1949

person1966

prosumer1987

1835 C. Brontë Let. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. vii. 142 The Opposition is divided, Red-hots, and Luke-warms.

1960 S. M. Lipset Polit. Man xi. 347 Breckenridge, the candidate of the ‘red-hots’..received the bulk of the votes of the men who did not own slaves.

1973 Sociometry 36 524 It is easy to understand that students who are ‘red hots’..would sit in the front.

2002 Smithsonian June 101/1 With the liberals—not with the most ardent ‘red-hots’, for with them there was no hope—the key words were also we and us.

2. Short for ‘red-hot metal’, ‘red-hot rivet’, etc. Now rare.In quot. 1865 in figurative context.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > specific degree of heat

red heatc1540

fury fire1644

adustness1652

white heat1664

blood heat1678

welding heat1710

black heat1800

welding1842

boiling-heat1846

red-hot1865

melting heat1868

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. v. 545 ‘Out of my sight with you!’ Upon which Ziethen,—a stratum of red-hot kindling in Ziethen too, as was easily possible,—turns to his Hussars, ‘Right about, Rechts um: march!’

1902 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Reporter 20 Jan. 2/2 It was fascinating to watch the riveters catch the red hot rivets in a can... The ‘red hots’ were handled with as much agility and ease as a boy handles peanuts.

1906 Bridgemen’s Mag. Oct. 27/1 Our former Recording Secretary..has quit the iron business, and instead of dispensing the red hots, he is dispensing schooners.

3. A frankfurter; a hot dog. U.S. regional (chiefly Midwest).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage

franchemyle1381

herbelade?c1390

haggisc1400

black puddinga1450

blood puddingc1450

bloodinga1500

liveringa1500

haggis pudding1545

white pudding1578

swine's pudding1579

hog's pudding1583

Bolognian sausage1596

bloodling1598

andouille1605

andouillet1611

cervelat1613

mortadella1613

polony1654

blacking1674

hacking1674

whiting1674

Oxford sausagec1700

saucisson1772

German sausage1773

saveloy1784

blood sausage1799

white hawse1819

liver sausage1820

black pot1825

chipolata1830

Bologna sausage1833

butifarra1836

mettwurst1836

Cambridge sausage1840

boudin1845

chorizo1846

German1847

liverwurst1852

salami1852

station-Jack1853

leberwurst1855

wurst1855

blutwurst1856

bag of mystery1864

Vienna sausage1865

summer sausage1874

wienerwurst1875

mealy pudding1880

whitepot1880

wiener1880

erbswurst1885

pepperoni1888

mystery bag1889

red-hot1890

weenie1891

hot dog1892

frankfurter1894

sav?1894

Coney Island1895

coney1902

garlic sausage1905

boloney1907

kishke1907

drisheen1910

bratwurst1911

banger1919

cocktail sausage1927

boerewors1930

soy sausage1933

thuringer1933

frank1936

fish sausage1937

knackwurst1939

foot-long1941

starver1941

soya sausage1943

soysage1943

soya link1944

brat1949

Vienna1952

kielbasa1953

Coney dog1954

tube steak1963

Weisswurst1963

Cumberland sausage1966

merguez1966

tripe sausage1966

schinkenwurst1967

boerie1981

'nduja1996

1890 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter 18 Jan. 4/1 The red-hots were generally cut in two longitudinally and smothered in mustard.

1892 Chicago Figaro vi. 157/2 The appetizing savors of ‘red hots’.

1934 J. T. Farrell Calico Shoes 46 Don leaned against the thrown-together red hot stand, munching at a hot-dog sandwich.

1971 B. Malamud Tenants 143 I got this redhot with mustard on it I'm gonna eat my meat.

1990 N. Blei Chi Town 176 ‘I'll have a red hot with the works’, I tell the waitress. She returns a few minutes later with a beautiful red hot.

4. U.S. A piece of a type of small, hard, red-coloured confectionery having a strong cinnamon flavour. Chiefly in plural.Now a proprietary name in the United States.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets

scrochat1448

gobbet riala1500

Portugal1560

sugar-pellet1591

muscadine1599

moscardino1616

rock candy1653

covering-seeds1687

lollipop1784

turn-over1798

lavender-sugar1810

humbug1825

kiss1825

elecampane1826

Gibraltar1831

yellow man1831

rose cake1834

cockle1835

maple candy1840

butterscotch1847

sponge candy1850

squib1851

honeycomb1857

marshmallow1857

motto kiss1858

fondant1861

coffee cream1868

candy-braid1870

candy bar1885

suckabob1888

nut bar1896

crackerjack1902

teiglach1903

red-hot1910

violet cream1912

mouldy1916

patty1916

lace1919

Tootsie Roll1925

sugar mouse1931

Parma1971

cinder toffee1979

1877 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 22 Dec. 11/5 Will you please give recipe for making red-hot candy, such as is sold at county fairs.]

1910 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constit. 22 Dec. 1/3 After eating candy known as ‘red hots’ given to her by a girl schoolmate, Nora..is near death from poisoning.

1921 C. London Bk. of Jack London I. x. 141 The two boys met of evenings in a little candy shop, where they bought their smokes and sometimes a nickel's worth of ‘red-hots’.

1949 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 22 Dec. 26 With a pastry tube pipe a green holly leaf or two on top and press cinnamon ‘red hots’ for berries.

2004 Scholastic Parent & Child Nov. 102/3 Decorate with red hot candies and miniature marshmallows for eyes and candy corn for beak.

Compounds

C1.

red-hot poker n. any of numerous plants (species, cultivars, and hybrids) of the genus Kniphofia (family Asphodelaceae), members of which are mainly native to southern Africa and have tall leafless stems surmounted by long spike-like racemes of closely packed tubular flowers, typically red, orange, or yellow in colour.The original plant in cultivation was K. uvaria, in which the upper flowers are fiery red, the lower yellow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > allied flowers

dog's tooth1578

daylily1597

mountain saffron1597

phalangium1608

Savoy spiderwort1629

hemerocallis1648

tuberose1664

St Bruno's lily1706

superb lily1731

agapanthus1789

Spanish squill1790

erythronium1797

Tritoma1804

Spanish harebell1808

veltheimia1808

adder's tongue1817

bunch flower1818

Puschkinia1820

hedychium1822

eremurus1836

flame lily1841

lily pink1848

mountain spiderwort1849

lloydia1850

kniphofia1854

garland-flower1866

red-hot poker1870

swamp-lover1878

African lily1882

flame-flower1882

Scarborough lily1882

wood-lily1882

St. Bernard lily1883

torch-lily1884

rajanigandha1885

ginger lily1892

chinkerinchee1904

snow lily1907

sand lily1909

avalanche lily1912

Spanish bluebell1924

mountain lily1932

chink1949

poker1975

1870 E. S. Rand Seventy-Five Pop. Flowers 195 The Tritoma. Natural Order. Liliaceae. Common name. Red-hot poker.

1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 2/2 The clustered sunflowers and ‘red-hot pokers’, most gorgeous of September's old-fashioned blooms.

1948 A. Paton Cry, Beloved Country 19 Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker.

2006 Chron. (Australia) (Nexis) 8 Aug. a20 In late summer, tuberous rooted dahlias become border mainstays along with knifophia or red hot pokers.

C2.

red-hot favourite n. a horse, team, competitor, etc., that is very strongly fancied to win; cf. hot favourite at hot adj. 12e.

ΚΠ

1879 Times 27 Oct. 12/2 She was comparatively an outsider in the betting, Out of Bounds being a red-hot favourite.

1920 Times 10 Sept. 5/2 A red-hot favourite was forthcoming for the Wharncliffe Three-Year-Old Handicap.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 30 May Bruges are going to read all about us being red-hot favorites and have a little chuckle—just as Ipswich did last week.

2003 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 3 May (Sport Suppl.) 22 Williams had been installed as a red-hot favourite with bookmakers Ladbrokes at extremely short odds of 1-50 when the contest resumed.

red-hot mama n. (also red-hot momma) U.S. slang (a) a sexual or promiscuous woman; (b) an attractive woman who sings in a particularly earthy style (cf. hot adj. 12h).Associated chiefly with the singer Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), known (from 1928) as ‘the last of the red-hot mamas’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > female lover

inamorata1651

swainessa1652

amorosa1658

inamoretta1720

mama1916

red-hot mama1924

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > other singers

knackerc1380

jubilist1471

sol-faer1609

serenader1677

comic singer1753

ranter1769

country singer1790

caroler1806

chansonnier1822

troller1824

cantabank1834

triller1873

lion comique1899

chantwell1909

red-hot mama1924

song stylist1931

singer-songwriter1949

playback singer1963

1924 G. Wells et al. (title of song) Red hot mama.

1926 in Amer. Speech (1927) 2 202 A ‘red-hot mama’ is a girl ‘strong for lovin'’ and who is always ready for a ‘necking party’.

1929 Los Angeles Times 29 Mar. 9 (caption) ‘Last of Red-Hot Mamas’ Due... Sophie Tucker Comes back to the Orpheum Theater on Sunday.

1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas ii. 24 The bride-to-be is probably some frightful red-hot mamma.

1940 O. Nash Face is Familiar 87 Affection..leads to breach of promise If you go round lavishing it on red-hot momise.

a1960 R. Wright Lawd Today (1963) iii. i. 167 Hope they got some redhot mamas up there.

1977 N.Y. Amsterdam News 4 June b5/1 I'm a red hot Mama with a nice cold daddy. He gets real mad whenever a nice-looking guy even looks at me.

2005 S. Gaines Sky's Limit 110 She has a brash, husky voice with the delivery of a red-hot mama.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	red-hot
释义	red-hotadj.n. Brit. /ˈrɛdˌhɒt/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌhɑt/ Forms: α. see red adj. and n. and hot adj. β. see red adj. and n. and het adj.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., hot adj. Etymology: < red adj. + hot adj. Compare earlier red-glowing adj. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1d(b), and later red heat n.With β. forms compare het adj.¹ and discussion at that entry. A. adj. 1. Of metal, a fire, etc.: that is so hot as to glow red; at red heat (red heat n. 2).See early quots. at sense A. 3a for figurative use. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > specific degree red-hot?a1425 rubificatea1500 white-hot1587 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 307 (MED) Þat iren schal be maad hoot til it bicome reed.] ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 183 (MED) Hete a gobet of a mylne stone in þe fire oþer of sinder of iren & make it rede hote. c1480 (a1400) St. Christina 242 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 405 He ane oyne gert be mad red het. ?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 683 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 79 The best counsayle that I now wott..Ys to make an ovyn as redd hott As euer yt can be made with fere. 1598 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) II. 46 Thay hett ane pair of taingis of irne in the fyre, quhill the blaidis thairof wes reid-hett. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. i. 61 The Iron of it selfe, though heate red hot [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 707 To prevent fire, which they greatly fear'd from the Red hot Bullets shot into it. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 357 Stones..glowing hot, and when broken exactly resembling red hot iron. 1783 Philos. Trans. 73 227 When the metal is red-hot, it melts and inflames instantaneously. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 346 He..placed upon the fire A brazen pot to boil, and made red hot The points of spits. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 189 This crack then serves for the passage of steam and other vapours, with showers of red-hot ashes. 1939 Fortune Nov. 78 (heading) Red-hot drill steel goes looping. 1955 K. Hutton & A. Swallow Chem. for Gen. Sci. xvii. 250 Hold it [sc. a pin] until red-hot in a flame. 1977 Zigzag Apr. 47/3 There's no way I'd listen to their album..not even if Nazis were standing over me with red hot pokers. 1988 S. Naipaul Hot Country i. 4 They would be tortured, branded with red-hot irons. 1995 E. Arthur Antarctic Navigation 780 A magma chamber is like a gigantic mixing bowl, in which the red-hot magma is crystallized when it touches the cold rocks which are surrounding it. 2. figurative. (Cf. hot adj. 8.) a. Of a thing, action, feeling, etc.: burning, urgent, violent, furious; fervent, passionate. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > subject to passion or strong emotion passionate?a1425 passionablec1475 vehementa1492 affectionate1534 red-hot1593 salamandry1610 hot-bloodeda1616 salamandrous1711 warm-blooded1831 passionful1842 brimstony1885 1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe xxxv. 23 She pities not to thinke vpon my smart..For there the torch of my red-hot desier Greeues. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 35 I will..leave the red-hot question to them that dare handle it. 1703 D. Defoe Hymn to Pillory 5 Doctors in scandall these are grown, For Red-hot Zeal and Furious Learning known. 1793 A. Young Example of France (ed. 3) 157 The red hot Maratism of the miscreant Society. 1852 J. L. Motley Let. 18 May in Corr. (1889) I. v. 142 Some singeing, scorching, red-hot review. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. xiii. 316 Of Fermor's redhot savagery on Cüstrin, it is lamentably necessary we should say something. 1879 E. K. Bates Egyptian Bonds II. viii. 207 Oscar strikes up a red-hot flirtation with some..country beauty. 1955 Times 16 May 3/3 The strident militancy of red hot Socialism. 1993 Golf Mag. Mar. 59/1 I experienced such a flush of red-hot anger that I walked up to the ball and whacked it. b. Of a person: highly inflamed or excited; fiery; violently enthusiastic, extreme (in some view or principle). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [adjective] > inflamed with passion fire-hotOE eschaufedc1374 on firea1393 inflammatec1450 inflamed1526 enkindled1549 boiling1579 seething1590 heated1595 red-hot1598 aflame1632 on flame1656 ablaze1819 burnt1859 incandescent1859 1598 T. Rogers Celestiall Elegies sig. A7 Red hote with rage whose heart with griefe doth bleede, I come from Ioue. 1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iii. sig. E ^v I shall expect my wife anon red hot with zeale. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 171 I told you Sir, they were red-hot with drinking. View more context for this quotation c1680 Royal-buss in State-poems (1697) 43 Red hot with Wine and Whore, He kickt the Commons out of door. 1702 True Picture Anc. Tory 61 We thought the Fighting-Men had been as red hot Tories as our Selves. 1758 J. Wesley Jrnl. 26 Nov. in Wks. (1872) II. 464 A red-hot Predestinarian, talking of God's ‘blowing whole worlds to hell’. 1832 Gentleman's Mag. May 435/1 He must be a red-hot reformer indeed who can regard these playful trifles as having any deeper intention than [etc.]. 1845 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 255 It has..ridded Keyhaven of a redhot young gunner. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood viii. 49 Edwin Drood's coolness, so far from being infectious, makes him red-hot. 1937 Pic May 15 Joe is a red-hot baseball fan. 2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Mar. a14 ‘He [sc. Ken Livingstone] used to be a red-hot lefty, and he wants to show he's still got a little of the Che Guevara fire in him,’ Johnson said. 3. slang (originally U.S.). a. Of a person or thing: up-to-the-minute, brand new; exciting, sensational, dramatic. Cf. hot adj. 10b.Early quots. are figurative uses of sense A. 1, indicating intensity or rapidity of activity as if overheating. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [adjective] stirring1421 excitative1490 rousing1576 animating1595 excitant1608 exciteful?1615 spirit-stirringa1616 spiritous1624 excitatinga1643 exagitating1646 fermentive1656 awakening1694 electrifying1746 upstirring1751 electrical1760 thrilling1768 excitive1774 proceleusmatic1775 electric1789 inspiriting1796 fermentitious1807 exciting1811 red-hot1835 hair-raising1838 suscitating1840 arousing1841 sizzling1845 zesty1853 excitory1861 throbbing1864 buzzing1882 ding-dong1887 thrillful1887 stir-up1890 large1895 thrilly1896 high voltage1909 voltaic1920 sizzly1936 Boy's Own1967 hot shit1967 crunk1995 1835 N.-Y. Mirror 23 May 1/2 In the newspaper,..there is news, red-hot with the velocity of its arrival, from Russia and the Rocky Mountains. 1880 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 16 Dec. After a long and arduous search after news on Wednesday morning we..ran down a certain young man in town who opened up a fire of red hot news,..the challenge and duel which was fought on Saturday last. 1882 W. R. Plum Mil. Telegraph During Civil War i. 14 At this time when every hour was pregnant with great events, only government messages had the right of wire. In the expressive language of operators, the lines were kept ‘red-hot’ with military dispatches. 1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 19 Feb. 6/1 A red-hot newsy journal. 1888 J. Runciman Chequers 116 You take the fellows in town that make their living after dark... There's some red-hot ones up—you know where—in Piccadilly. 1891 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Dec. 97 Suddenly a red-hot new idea came whistling down into my camp. 1904 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Eri xi. 205 ‘“Fightin' Fred Starlight, the Boy Rover of the Pacific”,’ he read aloud. ‘Humph! Is it good?’ ‘Bet your life! It's a red-hot story.’ 1915 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith, Journalist v. 33 My idea is that Cosy Moments should become red-hot stuff..such that the public will wonder why we do not print it on asbestos. 1928 B. Johnston Let. 23 Sept. in B. Johnston Letters Home 1926–1945 (1998) 21 I don't know how to thank you & Marcus for the wonderful time we had in London, it was absolutely ‘red-hot’. 1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July 86 A red hot pimp like you say you is, ain't got no business in the barrel. 1977 Belfast Tel. 24 Jan. 18/6 The clinching of these red-hot finals must be hailed as another major breakthrough for the sport. 2001 Boston Herald (Nexis) 16 Feb. s3 Anthony Hopkins is the red hot actor of the moment, reaping praise and magazine covers for his depiction of a monstrous killer. b. Jazz. Of music or a musician: very lively, vigorous, energetic. See also red-hot mama n. at Compounds 2 and hot adj. 12h. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of Chicagoan1861 bad1897 hot1918 red-hot1918 soft1921 low-down1922 sweet1924 barrel-house1926 New Orleans1926 straight1926 crazy1927 dirty1927 hotcha1930 jungle1935 solid1935 traditional jazz1935 powerhouse1937 gutty1939 riffy1939 jivey1944 Kansas City1946 cool1948 West Coast1949 far-out1954 nutty1955 swinging1955 mainstream1957 Afro-Latin1958 1918 Christensen's Ragtime Rev. Jan. 2/1 Sweet Baby Blues - A red hot jazz number (orchestration 15 cents). 1924 Metronome Aug. 76/1 Modulations and jazz endings for jazz novelty orchestras. Make your orchestra numbers red hot. 1926 Melody Maker Feb. 9/2 Art Christmas, the first trumpet, is also a red-hot ‘dirt’ sax. player. 1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz ii. 58 Dorsey is a red-hot stylist and technician [on the saxophone]. 1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 69 A red-hot bass player, seventy-nine years old, a proud Creole. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy v. 132 I first heard ‘Paper Doll’ sung in the ‘red-hot’ fashion by an American star crooner. 1977 J. Wainwright Do Nothin' xi. 183 It was jive and blues; either red-hot or smoochy. 2000 News of World (Nexis) 10 Dec. New Orleans..is one of the most fascinating places on earth... Red-hot music still rings out in bars and cafes. 4. Australian. Unfair, unreasonable. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [adjective] unrighteOE unrightfulOE wrongousa1200 wrongfulc1311 unevenc1380 unjustc1384 untrue1393 injustc1430 unreasonablec1440 unduec1450 inique1521 unequal1535 wry1561 undeserved?c1570 justless1578 unrighted1608 unequitable1643 inequitable1667 unfair1724 iniquitablea1734 unsportsmanlike1754 unsportsmanly1776 unsporting1859 below the belt1892 red-hot1896 society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [adjective] > unfair unmethea1300 unevenc1380 inique1521 unequal1535 unegall1589 unequitable1643 inequitable1667 unfair1713 iniquitablea1734 unsportsmanlike1754 unsportsmanly1776 rough1801 unsporting1859 below the belt1892 red-hot1896 1896 H. Lawson While Billy Boils 281 When..she paused for breath, he drew a long one, gave a short whistle, and, said: ‘Well, it's red-hot!’ 1907 A. Wright Keane of Kalgoorlie 107 ‘It's red 'ot,’ put in Dave, ‘th'way these 'ere owners makes er pore man give 'em a lump in th' sweep.’ 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 59 A red hot price. 1980 Sun (Sydney) 22 Feb. 21/4 (headline) Tomato prices are red hot. B. n. 1. A person who is very enthusiastic (about a cause, an issue, etc.). Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > enthusiast for person or thing votary1594 votary1594 well-willer1607 lief-hebber1653 enthusiast1748 amateur1771 fanatic1790 red-hot1835 freak1908 hound1926 fan1928 televisionary1928 tifoso1949 person1966 prosumer1987 1835 C. Brontë Let. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. vii. 142 The Opposition is divided, Red-hots, and Luke-warms. 1960 S. M. Lipset Polit. Man xi. 347 Breckenridge, the candidate of the ‘red-hots’..received the bulk of the votes of the men who did not own slaves. 1973 Sociometry 36 524 It is easy to understand that students who are ‘red hots’..would sit in the front. 2002 Smithsonian June 101/1 With the liberals—not with the most ardent ‘red-hots’, for with them there was no hope—the key words were also we and us. 2. Short for ‘red-hot metal’, ‘red-hot rivet’, etc. Now rare.In quot. 1865 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > specific degree of heat red heatc1540 fury fire1644 adustness1652 white heat1664 blood heat1678 welding heat1710 black heat1800 welding1842 boiling-heat1846 red-hot1865 melting heat1868 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. v. 545 ‘Out of my sight with you!’ Upon which Ziethen,—a stratum of red-hot kindling in Ziethen too, as was easily possible,—turns to his Hussars, ‘Right about, Rechts um: march!’ 1902 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Reporter 20 Jan. 2/2 It was fascinating to watch the riveters catch the red hot rivets in a can... The ‘red hots’ were handled with as much agility and ease as a boy handles peanuts. 1906 Bridgemen’s Mag. Oct. 27/1 Our former Recording Secretary..has quit the iron business, and instead of dispensing the red hots, he is dispensing schooners. 3. A frankfurter; a hot dog. U.S. regional (chiefly Midwest). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage franchemyle1381 herbelade?c1390 haggisc1400 black puddinga1450 blood puddingc1450 bloodinga1500 liveringa1500 haggis pudding1545 white pudding1578 swine's pudding1579 hog's pudding1583 Bolognian sausage1596 bloodling1598 andouille1605 andouillet1611 cervelat1613 mortadella1613 polony1654 blacking1674 hacking1674 whiting1674 Oxford sausagec1700 saucisson1772 German sausage1773 saveloy1784 blood sausage1799 white hawse1819 liver sausage1820 black pot1825 chipolata1830 Bologna sausage1833 butifarra1836 mettwurst1836 Cambridge sausage1840 boudin1845 chorizo1846 German1847 liverwurst1852 salami1852 station-Jack1853 leberwurst1855 wurst1855 blutwurst1856 bag of mystery1864 Vienna sausage1865 summer sausage1874 wienerwurst1875 mealy pudding1880 whitepot1880 wiener1880 erbswurst1885 pepperoni1888 mystery bag1889 red-hot1890 weenie1891 hot dog1892 frankfurter1894 sav?1894 Coney Island1895 coney1902 garlic sausage1905 boloney1907 kishke1907 drisheen1910 bratwurst1911 banger1919 cocktail sausage1927 boerewors1930 soy sausage1933 thuringer1933 frank1936 fish sausage1937 knackwurst1939 foot-long1941 starver1941 soya sausage1943 soysage1943 soya link1944 brat1949 Vienna1952 kielbasa1953 Coney dog1954 tube steak1963 Weisswurst1963 Cumberland sausage1966 merguez1966 tripe sausage1966 schinkenwurst1967 boerie1981 'nduja1996 1890 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter 18 Jan. 4/1 The red-hots were generally cut in two longitudinally and smothered in mustard. 1892 Chicago Figaro vi. 157/2 The appetizing savors of ‘red hots’. 1934 J. T. Farrell Calico Shoes 46 Don leaned against the thrown-together red hot stand, munching at a hot-dog sandwich. 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 143 I got this redhot with mustard on it I'm gonna eat my meat. 1990 N. Blei Chi Town 176 ‘I'll have a red hot with the works’, I tell the waitress. She returns a few minutes later with a beautiful red hot. 4. U.S. A piece of a type of small, hard, red-coloured confectionery having a strong cinnamon flavour. Chiefly in plural.Now a proprietary name in the United States. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets scrochat1448 gobbet riala1500 Portugal1560 sugar-pellet1591 muscadine1599 moscardino1616 rock candy1653 covering-seeds1687 lollipop1784 turn-over1798 lavender-sugar1810 humbug1825 kiss1825 elecampane1826 Gibraltar1831 yellow man1831 rose cake1834 cockle1835 maple candy1840 butterscotch1847 sponge candy1850 squib1851 honeycomb1857 marshmallow1857 motto kiss1858 fondant1861 coffee cream1868 candy-braid1870 candy bar1885 suckabob1888 nut bar1896 crackerjack1902 teiglach1903 red-hot1910 violet cream1912 mouldy1916 patty1916 lace1919 Tootsie Roll1925 sugar mouse1931 Parma1971 cinder toffee1979 1877 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 22 Dec. 11/5 Will you please give recipe for making red-hot candy, such as is sold at county fairs.] 1910 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constit. 22 Dec. 1/3 After eating candy known as ‘red hots’ given to her by a girl schoolmate, Nora..is near death from poisoning. 1921 C. London Bk. of Jack London I. x. 141 The two boys met of evenings in a little candy shop, where they bought their smokes and sometimes a nickel's worth of ‘red-hots’. 1949 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 22 Dec. 26 With a pastry tube pipe a green holly leaf or two on top and press cinnamon ‘red hots’ for berries. 2004 Scholastic Parent & Child Nov. 102/3 Decorate with red hot candies and miniature marshmallows for eyes and candy corn for beak. Compounds C1. red-hot poker n. any of numerous plants (species, cultivars, and hybrids) of the genus Kniphofia (family Asphodelaceae), members of which are mainly native to southern Africa and have tall leafless stems surmounted by long spike-like racemes of closely packed tubular flowers, typically red, orange, or yellow in colour.The original plant in cultivation was K. uvaria, in which the upper flowers are fiery red, the lower yellow. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > allied flowers dog's tooth1578 daylily1597 mountain saffron1597 phalangium1608 Savoy spiderwort1629 hemerocallis1648 tuberose1664 St Bruno's lily1706 superb lily1731 agapanthus1789 Spanish squill1790 erythronium1797 Tritoma1804 Spanish harebell1808 veltheimia1808 adder's tongue1817 bunch flower1818 Puschkinia1820 hedychium1822 eremurus1836 flame lily1841 lily pink1848 mountain spiderwort1849 lloydia1850 kniphofia1854 garland-flower1866 red-hot poker1870 swamp-lover1878 African lily1882 flame-flower1882 Scarborough lily1882 wood-lily1882 St. Bernard lily1883 torch-lily1884 rajanigandha1885 ginger lily1892 chinkerinchee1904 snow lily1907 sand lily1909 avalanche lily1912 Spanish bluebell1924 mountain lily1932 chink1949 poker1975 1870 E. S. Rand Seventy-Five Pop. Flowers 195 The Tritoma. Natural Order. Liliaceae. Common name. Red-hot poker. 1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 2/2 The clustered sunflowers and ‘red-hot pokers’, most gorgeous of September's old-fashioned blooms. 1948 A. Paton Cry, Beloved Country 19 Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker. 2006 Chron. (Australia) (Nexis) 8 Aug. a20 In late summer, tuberous rooted dahlias become border mainstays along with knifophia or red hot pokers. C2. red-hot favourite n. a horse, team, competitor, etc., that is very strongly fancied to win; cf. hot favourite at hot adj. 12e. ΚΠ 1879 Times 27 Oct. 12/2 She was comparatively an outsider in the betting, Out of Bounds being a red-hot favourite. 1920 Times 10 Sept. 5/2 A red-hot favourite was forthcoming for the Wharncliffe Three-Year-Old Handicap. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 30 May Bruges are going to read all about us being red-hot favorites and have a little chuckle—just as Ipswich did last week. 2003 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 3 May (Sport Suppl.) 22 Williams had been installed as a red-hot favourite with bookmakers Ladbrokes at extremely short odds of 1-50 when the contest resumed. red-hot mama n. (also red-hot momma) U.S. slang (a) a sexual or promiscuous woman; (b) an attractive woman who sings in a particularly earthy style (cf. hot adj. 12h).Associated chiefly with the singer Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), known (from 1928) as ‘the last of the red-hot mamas’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > female lover inamorata1651 swainessa1652 amorosa1658 inamoretta1720 mama1916 red-hot mama1924 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > other singers knackerc1380 jubilist1471 sol-faer1609 serenader1677 comic singer1753 ranter1769 country singer1790 caroler1806 chansonnier1822 troller1824 cantabank1834 triller1873 lion comique1899 chantwell1909 red-hot mama1924 song stylist1931 singer-songwriter1949 playback singer1963 1924 G. Wells et al. (title of song) Red hot mama. 1926 in Amer. Speech (1927) 2 202 A ‘red-hot mama’ is a girl ‘strong for lovin'’ and who is always ready for a ‘necking party’. 1929 Los Angeles Times 29 Mar. 9 (caption) ‘Last of Red-Hot Mamas’ Due... Sophie Tucker Comes back to the Orpheum Theater on Sunday. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas ii. 24 The bride-to-be is probably some frightful red-hot mamma. 1940 O. Nash Face is Familiar 87 Affection..leads to breach of promise If you go round lavishing it on red-hot momise. a1960 R. Wright Lawd Today (1963) iii. i. 167 Hope they got some redhot mamas up there. 1977 N.Y. Amsterdam News 4 June b5/1 I'm a red hot Mama with a nice cold daddy. He gets real mad whenever a nice-looking guy even looks at me. 2005 S. Gaines Sky's Limit 110 She has a brash, husky voice with the delivery of a red-hot mama. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.?a1425
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