piping hot en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌpaɪpɪŋ ˈhɑt/ (General-American)
- pīʹpĭng hŏt (General-American)
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- /ˌpaɪ.pɪŋ ˈhɒt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English. First attested circa second half of 14th century, from the similarity between the sizzling sound of food cooking in a frying pan and that of musical pipes, from Canterbury Tales http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2383 by Geoffrey Chaucer: :: "He singeth brokking¹ as a nightingale. / He sent her piment, mead, and spiced ale, / And wafers² piping hot out of the glede³: / And, for she was of town, he proffer'd meed." :: ¹ quavering, ² cakes, ³ coals
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piping, hot: very hot in a way that involves sizzling, crackling, or similar noises.
Don't touch the pie! It's piping hot, straight out of the oven.
Near-synonyms: boiling hot, scalding hot, steaming hot, steaming, baking hot; see also Thesaurus:hot
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(broadly, idiomatic, not-comparable) Very hot.
Watch out — that curling iron is still piping hot.
Cook until tender in a moderate oven (350° F.)—allow about 2½ hours. Turn occasionally for even cooking. Remove the strings before serving. Serve piping hot with gravy made from the pan drippings, or chill and serve cold.
1942, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics, Foods and Nutrition Division, Meat for Thrifty Meals:You will see that my breakfast is piping hot, And rub the clothes to a snowy whiteness
1909, George Melville Baker, Pieces People Ask For, A Lesson to Lovers:
Antonyms
brass monkeys · wintry · chilly · cold · taters · gelid · glacial · ice-cold · inclement · icy · clay-cold · freezing cold · sleety · Baltic · icy · frozen · frosty · freezing cold · boreal · Baltic · inclement · brumal · ice-cold · icy · nippy · chill · hiemal · snowy · chill · chilly · nippy · brumal · chilled · freezing · algid · cold as a mackerel · nesh · sleety · frosty · icy · clay-cold · wintry · polar · cold · Arctic · frore · nesh · gelid · parky · frozen · cold as charity · algid · chilled · snowy · taters · polar · cold as a mackerel · freezing · brass monkeys · cold as charity · freezing · hiemal · frore · boreal · glacial · Arctic · parky · freezing
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Synonyms
steaming · boiling hot · boiling hot · hissing hot · smoking hot · scalding hot · hot · choleric · scalding hot · heated · hot · choleric · baking hot · steaming · calid · steaming hot · calid · steaming hot · hissing hot · heated
Translations (14)
pl wrzący (very hot) · hu tűzforró (very hot) · vi nóng hôi hổi (very hot) · hi गर्मागर्म (very hot) · sv stekhet (very hot) · vi nóng hổi (very hot) · pt pelando (very hot) · fr brûlant (very hot) · it bollente (very hot) · sv skållhet (very hot) · sv brännhet (very hot) · ru горячо (very hot) · he לוֹהֵט (very hot) · de glühend heiß (very hot)