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名詞

red hot (plural red hots)

1. (US, Midwest) A frankfurter, a hot dog.

形容詞

red hot (comparative more red hot, superlative most red hot)

1. Alternative form of red-hot.
   • 1958 February, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:

     The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire.

アナグラム

• dehort

発音

• 韻: -ɒt

形容詞

red-hot (comparative more red-hot, superlative most red-hot)

1. Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color.

   Synonyms: glowing hot, fervent (literary), fiery

   The smith's apprentice was still wary of manipulating the red-hot metal.

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14, column 1:

     The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence.

   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 77:

     Heaped up upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chesnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

   • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade:

     Among this nation of necromancers there was also one who had in his veins the blood of the salamanders; for he made no scruple of sitting down to smoke his chibouc in a red-hot oven until his dinner was thoroughly roasted upon its floor.

   • 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 10:

     [A] red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; […]

   • 1898 September, Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIV, number DCCCCXCV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., page 325, column 1:

     The cat-heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain.

2. (hyperbolic) Very hot.

   That curry was red-hot.

3. (informal) Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm.

   He really delivered a red-hot speech today.

4. (informal) Having very strong sex appeal.

   Did you see that red-hot bikini model in today's paper?

5. (informal) Very fresh, exciting, and up-to-date.

   Tune in at ten to catch this red-hot story!

   • 2021 September 1, Taylor Lorenz, “She’s the Investor Guru for Online Creators”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     She sits at the intersection of start-up investing and the fast-growing ecosystem of online creators, both of which are red hot.

関連する語

• firehot
• red heat

名詞

red-hot (plural red-hots)

1. (dated, US) Alternative spelling of red hot.

参考

• white-hot

アナグラム

• dehort