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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hot-blooded
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All are hot-blooded, hectic and recognisably personal.
▪ These are hot-blooded creatures and at one hundred and sixty tons they certainly know how to make the earth move.
▪ They were, one senses, hot-blooded creators, these citizens of the Minoan towns.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hot-blooded

Hot-blooded \Hot"-blood`ed\, a. Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hot-blooded

"passionate," 1590s; a relic of medieval physiology theory.

Wiktionary
hot-blooded

a. Easily angered or excited; lustful; passionate; excitable.

WordNet
hot-blooded

adj. prone to emotion; "hot-blooded Latin-Americans"

Usage examples of "hot-blooded".

Most of these were Syrians, Cilicians, Cypriots, and the hot-blooded citizens of those quarrelsome Semitic states around the Palus Asphaltites in Palestina.

Why is it that people feel that revenge is justified, and acceptable, and that one is hot-blooded and human to undertake it, yet that to quietly prevent it is cold-blooded and ruthless-even if, in the end, far fewer souls suffer?

He wondered if the hot-blooded Nellie would seduce another brother likewise to sleep but decided in the negative if Peg were truly present.

What Fern did not say was that though she shared none of these leanings, she had once been certain they were proof of stored-up passions, promises that one day she would wake to find herself beside a hot-blooded ukelele-playing muscleman bent on saving the world through laughter.

Pylaemenes tough as Ares, a captain heading the Paphlagonian shieldsmen, hot-blooded men.

Or someone as hot-blooded and impulsive as Stapp of Judges, in such a dangerous environment?

By the saints, as dispassionately as he matched his broodmares, her da had locked her in the stables with three hot-blooded studs and gone visiting.

In it, he was sitting at home in front of the television, trying to concentrate on the football game as his shrewish, dough-faced wife, dressed in a food-stained dressing gown, hectored him about his sleeping with Delia, the cute secretary from the steno pool, and how she was going to sue him for a divorce and collect a fat alimony, on which she was going to move to Mexico and enjoy the good life, and if that included a hot-blooded young Mexican with the stamina of a stallion, so much the better.

The hot-blooded Tribus clan considered it demeaning and humiliating to be forced to begas they considered itfor water.

Hot-blooded Bonifay led an escape into the ship that had struck them down.

He was a swaggering bantam rooster of a youth, too young and too hot-blooded for Ned's taste, though a fast friend of Catelyn's brother, Edmure Tully.

It is impossible to imagine a greater difference in character than exists between the hot-blooded Southerner, and the cold calculating Yankee of the eastern States.

He would have many intellectual triumphs ahead of him and men would eventually look upon this plagiaristic attempt as the mistake of a hot-blooded youth, deficient in judgment.

That the elephant had run amok and trampled many innocent people, that the man truly responsible was his handler, and that the police were only doing their duty, would be, psychopathologically, either forgotten or deliberately suppressed by a youth of hot-blooded stock whose subconscious had been so deeply lacerated.

In preparation for the Panthers, a hot-blooded, round-heeled spy had been deployed.