hissing hot
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.88 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that,—hissing hot,—think of that, Master Brook."
- "1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey: or, The Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act II, p. 30, […] a hissing hot fever laid hold of him; and the doctors, with all their rank and file of phials and bolusses, could hardly drive him out of his veins."
- "Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot […]"
- "When a man has lived in such hissing hot places that he is fain to spend his life under cover, he is glad to keep abroad in this green English sweetness."
- "Mrs Willy Nilly full of tea to her double-chinned brim broods and bubbles over her coven of kettles on the hissing hot range always ready to steam open the mail."