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firehot

adj

Etymology

From Middle English fyre hoot, fyre hoote, from Old English fȳrhāt (“fire-hot”), equivalent to fire + hot.

  1. inherited from fȳrhāt
  2. inherited from fyre hoot

Definitions

  1. As hot as fire

    As hot as fire; hot from fire; extremely hot; red-hot.

    • She knows they expect needles, knives, firehot brands.
    • The book was firehot and intriguing. Even if he hadn't penned the scenes from Reides' point of view, he knew he'd still assert that the story had best seller written all over it.
    • He tentatively held the cord between two fingers. It was limp, lifeless. Laying the baby down, he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket to wrap around the handle of his firehot knife.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for firehot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA