Dictionary

red-hot en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color.
   • The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence. c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14, column 1:
   • The cat-heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain. 1898 September, Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIV, number DCCCCXCV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., page 325, column 1:
   • Among this nation of necromancers there was also one who had in his veins the blood of the salamanders; for he made no scruple of sitting down to smoke his chibouc in a red-hot oven until his dinner was thoroughly roasted upon its floor. 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade:
   • Heaped up upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chesnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 77:
   • [A] red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; […] 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 10:
   • The smith's apprentice was still wary of manipulating the red-hot metal.
2. (excessive) Very hot.
   • That curry was red-hot.
3. (informal) Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm.
   • He really delivered a red-hot speech today.
4. (informal) Having very strong sex appeal.
   • Did you see that red-hot bikini model in today's paper?
5. (informal) Very fresh, exciting, and up-to-date.
   • Tune in at ten to catch this red-hot story!
   • She sits at the intersection of start-up investing and the fast-growing ecosystem of online creators, both of which are red hot. 2021 September 1, Taylor Lorenz, “She’s the Investor Guru for Online Creators”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

Deriveds

give it a red-hot crack

Relateds

firehot · red heat

Synonyms

glowing hot · fervent · fiery

Translations (32)

ota قیزغین (emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm) · de rotglühend (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · ota سوزان (very hot) · es al rojo vivo (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · tr kızgın (emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm) · is eldheitur (emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm) · bg разгорещен (emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm) · it rovente (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · bg нажежен до червено (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · el καυτός (very hot) · nl roodgloeiend (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · is eldheitur (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · gl roxo (very hot) · ota سوزان (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · gl roxo (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · bg пламенен (emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm) · bg силно възбуден (having a very strong sexual appeal) · es candente (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · tr kızgın (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · is rauðglóandi (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · ota قیزغین (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · pl rozgrzany do czerwoności (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · ru накалённый докрасна́ (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · pdt rootheet (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · is blossandi (emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm) · ru пла́менный (emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm) · tr sıcak (very fresh, new, recent and up to date) · de heiß (having a very strong sexual appeal) · ota قیزغین (very hot) · tr kızgın (very hot) · mi miramira (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color) · nb rødglødende (heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color)

red-hot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (US, alt-of, alternative, dated) Alternative spelling of red hot.
   alt of red hot

Forms

Relateds

white-hot