Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hot-takey

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hot--takey
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Prone to issuing hot takes.

Informal

adj

Reminiscent of a hot take: boldly opinionated, but lacking in insight, originality, or thoughtfulness.

Informal

Example Sentences

"2019, September 3. Alexis Chassen, "Welcome to Bleeding Green Nation!" SBNation. We aren't super hot-takey, and do our best to cover the team accurately and honestly — while also including a fair bit of snark toward our rivals, and celebrating victories passionately."
"Instead, the biggest bones Villanovans ought to pick with this hot-takey article is the (1) arbitrariness by which the author levels critiques of the restaurant's accessibility, and (2) how the author twists said accessibility into nothing more than a "trap [for] impressionable teens.""

Etymology

From hot take + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hot take

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more hot-takey (comparative) most hot-takey (superlative)

Questions

What does hot-takey mean?: Prone to issuing hot takes.
Where does hot-takey come from?: From hot take + -y.

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