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  1. adjective Having or giving off heat; capable of burning.
  2. adjective Being at a high temperature.
  3. adjective Being at or exhibiting a temperature that is higher than normal or desirable: a hot forehead.
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  • "You should have gone," I cried in French, hot with indignation; —  Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions
  • “You should have gone,” I cried in French, hot with indignation; —  Oscar Wilde
  • You would try the patience of. lob, let alone a tired little woman like myself. " —  Voyage To The City Of The Dead
  • "I'll come with you," said Aisha. —  Haven
  • Grendels swarmed there. —  The Legacy of Heorot
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hāt; see kai- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The vowel has become short in modern English; formerly hote (like wrote, boat), early modern English also whot, whote; from Middle English hot, hote, hoot, from Anglo-Saxon hāt = Old Saxon hēt = OFries. hēt = Dutch heet = Middle Low German hēt, Low German het = Old High German Middle High German heiz, German heiss = Icelandic heitr = Swedish het = Danish hed (Gothic (Moesogothic) *haits, not found), hot; from the root *hit in Anglo-Saxon hit (occurs once, spelled hyt, in Beowulf) = Dutch hitte, hette = Old High German hizza, Middle High German G. hitze, feminine, = Icelandic hiti, masculine, heat, hita, feminine, a heating (the English heat is ult. from hot); perhaps extended from a root *hi, later Old High German Middle High German hei, gehei, heat, and perhaps Gothic (Moesogothic) hais, a torch. See heat.
  2. from Middle English hotte, from Old French (and F.) hotte, a basket for the back, from German dial. hotte, a wooden vessel, tub, a vintager's dosser: cf. dial, hotze, hotte, hutte, a cradle. English hod is a different word.
 

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