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Extremely passionate
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red-hot
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color. 2 (context hyperbolic English) very hot 3 Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm. 4 Having a very strong sexual appeal. 5 Very fresh, new, recent and up to date. n. (context ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "heated till it glows red" (of metal, etc.); of persons, "lively, passionate," it is recorded from c.1600. Red-hot mama is 1926, jazz slang, "earthy female singer," also "girlfriend, lover."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN iron ▪ Within each mold had lain intricate hollows; now they are filled with red-hot iron , slowly cooling. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Red-hot lava flowed down the sides of the volcano. ▪ Their friendship turned ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman" [syn: juicy , luscious , voluptuous ] newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot information" [syn: hot ] characterized by intense emotion or interest ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Red-hot \Red"-hot`\ (-h?t`), a. Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical. --Shak.
Usage examples of red-hot.
I see you kneeling in the rose garden, and the urge to take you then and there sets red-hot coals adancing in my belly.
Each Akkadian man on the journey placed his sword in the pyre, letting it glow red-hot at the edges.
But you push a lot of red-hot material up into a street like this and nearby structures made mostly of beaverboard and plywood are very quickly going to reach their flash point.
Next minute I heard a horse running, and glimpsed him tearing away through the bresh on a pinto mustang, setting his hoss like it was a red-hot stove, and dern him, he had my clothes in one hand!
Omet had seen him once put his hand directly into the kiln itself and pull forth a rack of greenware tiles without flinching as his hand grasped the red-hot wire.
These Marseillais were red-hot republicans, and in judging the political situation of that moment this constitutes one of the salient points.
There is not a peasant in all this countryside indeed, scarce a man of any sort but is a red-hot Orleanist, anti-Cardinalist, and friend of the Devil.
Secret Service agents know more about phreaking, coding and carding than most phreaks can find out in years, and when it comes to viruses, break-ins, software bombs and trojan horses, Feds have direct access to red-hot confidential information that is only vague rumor in the underground.
It was warm as toast in the small quarters of the posthouse where a red-hot stove blazed with dry heat.
A great star ship was taking off at the far end of the field, sliding down the ice-smooth plastic skidway with the red-hot flare of booster jets frothing in its tubes.
The mountains, in whose hearts had slumbered volcanic fires, which, from time to time, had burst forth, lighting up the great ocean with Tartarean brilliancy, and scattering red-hot lava far and wide, now stood up in sublime composure, like ramparts of protection to the lovely island formed by the upheaval.
He will heat his cannonballs red-hot, then fire them over the walls, hoping to hit this arsenal.
What between the smell of smoke and dust, the heat of the sun on the tin roof above, and the red-hot embers of the house in front, the little room where Bessie was shut up grew almost unbearable, and she felt as though she should faint upon the sacks.
All four galleons thundered forth four broadsides, sending red-hot shot from every gun that would bear into ships, docks, wharves, quays, warehouses, stacks of supplies, and dry-dock facilities.
At one stage of the trek they passed through the edge of the fly-belt, and the silent, lightfooted tsetse-flies joined the torment, settling so softly that the victim was unaware until a red-hot needle stabbed into the soft flesh at the back of the ear, or under the-armpit.