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单词 hot mess
释义

hot mess

noun

plural hot messes
1
informal : something or someone that is emphatically a mess: such as
a
: something in a state of extreme disorder or disarray
His latest outing, to a hot mess of a boutique hotel in New Mexico, is just as full of withering asides and bleeped-out F-bombs. TV Guide
b
: a disorganized, disheveled, or self-destructive person
She's a hard-drinking hot mess who scavenges the streets for castoff furniture and clothing that she spruces up and sometimes sells; how she survives in contemporary Los Angeles is one of the movie's biggest mysteries. Sheri Lindenn
also : such a person who is at the same time attractive or sexy
However, Everett actually is a hot mess when she performs. Her stage presence is erotic and chaotic, her big blond body wrapped in something low-cut and sheer. Molly Adams
2
archaic
a
: a hot dish especially of soft or pulpy food
… there was a stove over which our guides made a hot mess of flour and water which passed for soup. Edwin Swift Balch
b
: a hot mixture of ingredients cooked or eaten together
They were supping or breakfasting together off a hot mess of meat and vegetables, and rose up at our entrance, for the room boasted of a wooden bench and couple of ricketty stools. Henry Vizetelly

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1772, in the meaning defined at sense 2b

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