overhotadj.

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. 10 (table of contents) Læcedomas wið ælces cynnes omum & onfeallum & bancoþum,..wið omum oferhatum & wið seondum omum.

c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 955 Another seyde the fyr was ouer hoot.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 560 Tho tymes of þe ȝere þat ben ouer hote and ouer colde ben to be eschewede.

a1475 Revelations St. Birgitta (Garrett) (1929) 69 (MED) That the vessell of glas is some tyme..ouer hote and some tyme ouer cold and slyper betokeneth þe inconstance and unstablenes of the kynge.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 9639 (MED) But if þou haue an outrage hete, To greue þe it wole not lete, It is euel forto be ouerhote; It wole putte þe in-to greet swote.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 295 Make it in manner redde whote in the fire, but yet not ouerwhote: (for yron is very violent if it be too much het).

1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 4 The ouer-hot, or Torrid Zone is betweene the two Tropicks, and continually schorcht with the presence of the Sunne.

1657 Divine Lover 166 Cloths..ouer heauy, & ouerhott for the summer.

1712 T. Ellwood Davideis iv. i. 192 He, who but now was over Hot and Bold, Is now become to Her exceeding Cold.

1721 T. D'Urfey Two Queens of Brentford iv. i. 54 A burning Blush o'er all my Face has got, And glows just like an Ov'n that's over hot.

1834 M. R. Mitford Charles I iv. i. 48 Ire. Harrison Is hoarse with railing. Crom. Overhot! But that's A fault may pass for virtue. Overcold's, Your modish sin.

1876 Appleton's Jrnl. 27 May 689/1 There has been an outburst of pent-up wrath concerning an underdone and not too tender or overhot saddle of mutton.

1951 D. Thomas Let. Jan. (1987) 780 This grand over-hot Oil-Company Guest House where we are staying.

1990 D. Holloway Which? Bk. Plumbing & Central Heating (rev. ed.) 10 Overhot water is characteristic of ‘gravity’ (i.e. non-pumped) hot water circuits.