Boiling hot. Also figurative fervent. Cf. walm-hot at walm, n. 5.

Comb.: walm-hot adj. blazing-hot, boiling-hot. (Cf. walming hot at walm, v. derivatives.)

In (chiefly hyperbolical) similative comparisons, as hot as hell, hotter than hell, hot as fire, etc.

Of liquid: boiling. Also of a vessel: containing boiling liquid. Obsolete.

boiling hot.

Boiling; boiling hot.

In a highly heated state; exceedingly hot. †burning line: the equator (obsolete). burning zone: the torrid zone (poetic).

Of fire, the sun, etc.: Scorching. Obsolete.

That burns, scorches, makes very hot.

Extremely hot; blazing, scorching.

glowing, seething; also in walming hot.

quasi-adv., esp. in boiling hot.

That has the effect of baking something; extremely hot (and usually dry); scorching.

= piping hot adj. at compounds 1.

Originally, of liquids, a cauldron, etc.: Boiling. In modern use, a somewhat rhetorical expression for: Intensely heated (said of solids, the…

hyperbolically. Intensely bright and hot.

That stews; very hot.

transferred. Intensely hot. rare.

scorching, parching.

Hyperbolically: extremely hot. colloquial.