Meaning of hissing hot | Babel Free

Definitions

Very hot.

dated, idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

“And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like⟳ a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like⟳ a horse-shoe; think⟳ of that,—hissing hot,—think⟳ of that, Master Brook.”

“1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey: or, The Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act II, p. 30, […] a hissing hot fever laid hold⟳ of him; and the doctors, with all their rank and file⟳ of phials and bolusses, could hardly drive⟳ him out of his veins.”

“Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot […]”

“When a man has lived in such hissing hot places that he is fain to spend⟳ his life under cover⟳, he is glad to keep⟳ abroad in this green English sweetness.”

“Mrs Willy Nilly full of tea to her double-chinned brim broods and bubbles over her coven of kettles on the hissing hot range always ready to steam open⟳ the mail.”

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