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单词 reeking hot
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reeking hot
So as to give off smoke, steam, sweat, etc. Frequently in reeking hot. Chiefly as an intensifier. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > very > so as to give off steam
smoking hot1609
reeking hot1615
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 103 Whom reeking hote, with heart yet panting, they greedily devoured.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. J. Walaeus Two Epist. (new ed.) in tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) 359 It comes reaking hot as it were from the fire.
1699 S. Whately tr. Epist. Phalaris App. 224 I Have sent you my Book reeking hot from the Press; which had I never known You I had never written.
1720 C. Shadwell Rotherick O'Connor i, in Wks. I. 285 Whilst her trickling Blood is reeking Hot, I'le open all your Veins, to mix amongst it.
1766 P. Thicknesse Observ. Customs Fr. Nation xviii. 86 I have seen a sailor put a quid of tobacco out of his mouth to sun it for a second regale, and another steal it, and put it reeking hot into his own.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 63 But can I clasp it reeking red?
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvii. 276 A glass of reeking hot pine-apple rum and water, with a slice of lemon in it.
1881 A. Trollope Ayala's Angel III. xliv. 7 His coat reeking wet through was fastened by one button across his chest.
1921 Times 8 Feb. 13/6 It is, in effect, parboiled and packed tight, reeking hot.
1927 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 5 Mar. 20/3 ‘Yellow’ is too mild a term to apply to many daily newspapers. They are red, reeking red.
1992 T. Wolfe Lost Boy 14 And the old horse stood there, reeking wet, and somehow with a look of tired gratefulness.
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