hot water
/hɒt ˈwɔːtə/noun
1Water at a high temperature, either naturally as in a hot spring, or artificially heated for cookery, washing, or other purposes; (in later use) specifically heated water available on tap (in a home, hotel, etc.).
2 Figurative informal. A state of discomfort, difficulty, or painful uncertainty; disgrace, trouble. Chiefly in in hot water.
3In plural Alcoholic spirits obtained by distillation; spirituous liquors. Now historical.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in Lacnunga. From hot + water.
- roughening transition
- roughet
- rough-faced
- Rough Fell
- rough file
- rough fish
- rough-footed
- rough-gaited
- rough-grained
- rough grazing
- rough-grind
- rough grinder
- rough-ground
- roughhead
- rough-headed poppy
- rough-hew
- rough-hewn
- rough horsetail
- rough hound
- roughhouse
- roughie
- rough-in
- roughing
- roughing pump
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