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blazing en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbleɪzɪŋ/
  • (Australia) audio

Meanings

  1. (informal, not-comparable) Very fast.
  2. (not-comparable, of a person, slang) Sexually attractive.
    • There were enough blazing babes in the place to give a monk a hard-on on sight. 2023, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, page 16:
  3. (not-comparable) Of tremendous intensity, heat (thermal energy) or fervor; white-hot.
    • Blazing scarlet is the best; rifle-green the next best. 1859, Punch, Or, The London Charivari, Volumes 36-37, Published for the Proprietors, at the Office, 13, page 236:
  4. (informal, not-comparable) Exceedingly angry.
    • The divorced couple had a blazing row.
    • She twirled around, her eyes blazing.
    • Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 31, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 142:

Deriveds

blazingstar · blazingly · unblazing

Relateds

trailblazing

Translations (10)

bg ярък (Translations) · ota قیزغین (Translations) · hi ज्वलंत (Translations) · ota سوزان (Translations) · eo flamanta (Translations) · grc αἴθων (Translations) · pl piekący (Translations) · es flamígero (Translations) · pl prażący (Translations) · pl palący (Translations)

blazing en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbleɪzɪŋ/
  • (Australia) audio

Meanings

  1. The act of something that blazes or burns.
    • the blazings of many fires

Forms

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blazing en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbleɪzɪŋ/
  • (Australia) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of blaze
    form of blaze