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English

Alternative forms

• (physically attractive): hawt (slang, especially Internet), hott (slang, especially Internet)

Etymology

From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English {{ang|hāt}}, from Proto-Germanic {{gem-pro|*haitaz}}, from Proto-Indo-European {{ine-pro|*(s)kAy-||hot; to heat}}. Compare West Frisian hjit, Dutch [[heet#

Nederlands:

|heet]], Low German {{ Template:Nds/script |[[het#

Plattdüütsch:

|het]]|face=term|lang=nds}}, German [[heiß#

Deutsch:

|heiß]], Danish [[hed#

Dansk:

|hed]].

Pronunciation

• (RP) Template:EnPR, /hɒt/
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• Rhymes: [[Rhymes:
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  :-ɒt|-ɒt]]
• (GenAm) Template:EnPR, /hɑt/
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Adjective

1. (of an object) Having a high temperature.

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2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.

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3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

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4. Feverish.
5. (of food) Spicy.

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6. Lëtzebuergesch: en
   Very good, remarkable, exciting. Template:Defdate

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7. Stolen. Template:Defdate

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8. Lëtzebuergesch: en
   Electrically charged.

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   • 2004, Phillip Moore, Sealed for a Purpose (page 213)

     The microphone was hot and the show was on the air.

9. Lëtzebuergesch: en
   Radioactive. Template:Defdate
10. Lëtzebuergesch: en
    (of a person) Very physically or sexually attractive.

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11. Lëtzebuergesch: en
    Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
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12. Popular; in demand.

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13. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.

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14. Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
    • 1938, Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:

      "Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.

    • 2002, Peter Krause & Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, p.55:

      The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.

15. Fresh; just released.
    • 1960, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:

      A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot.

    • 2000, David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, p.34:

      Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.

16. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
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17. Lëtzebuergesch: en
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    He was finished in a hot minute.

    I dated him for a hot second.

Quotations

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Synonyms

• (having a high temperature): heated; see also Wikisaurus:hot
• (of the weather): baking, boiling, boiling hot, sultry, sweltering
• (feeling the sensation of heat): baking, boiling, boiling hot
• (feverish): feverish, having a temperature
• (spicy): piquant, spicy, tangy
• (slang: stolen): stolen
• (electrically charged): live
• (radioactive): radioactive
• (slang: physically or sexually attractive): attractive, beautiful, cute, fit, foxy, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, lush, pretty, sexy, studly, tasty, yummy

Antonyms

• (having a high temperature): chilled, chilly, cold, cold as ice, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, glacial, ice-cold, icy
• (of the weather): cold, freezing, freezing cold, icy
• (feeling the sensation of heat): freezing, freezing cold
• (spicy): bland, mild
• (electrically charged): neutral, dead
• (slang): lifeless

Derived terms

• a bit hot
• as hot as hell, hot as hell
• boiling hot
• blow hot and cold
• catch it hot, get it hot
• give it to someone hot
• give it to someone hot and strong
• go hot and cold
• go like hot cakes, sell like hot cakes
• have the hots for
• hot air
• hot and bothered
• hot-and-hot
• hot bed
• hot beef
• hot blast
• hot-blooded
• hot bottle
• hot box
• hot-brain
• hot-brained
• hot bulb
• hot button
• hot cathode
• hot chair
• hot check
• hot chisel
• hot-closet
• hot cockles
• hot coppers
• hot cross bun
• hot cupboard

• hot damn
• hot date
• hot diggety, hot diggety dog
• hot-dip
• hot-dipped
• hot dipping
• hot dog
• hot favorite, hot favourite
• hot flash, hot flush
• hot-flue
• hotfoot
• hot from the press, hot off the press
• hot gospeler, hot gospeller
• hot gospeling, hot gospelling
• hot hatch
• hot-hatch
• hothead
• hotheaded
• hot-hoof
• hot-house, hothouse
• hot-iron test
• hot-key
• hot laboratory
• hot line, hotline
• hotly
• hot-making
• hot melt, hot-melt adhesive, hot-melt glue
• hot metal
• hot money
• hotness

• hot on
• hot on someone's heels
• hot-panted, hot-pantsed
• hot pants
• hot pint
• hotplate
• hotpot
• hot potato
• hot-press
• hot-presser
• hot property
• hot rod, hotrod
• hot-rodder, hotrodder
• hot-saw
• hot seat
• hot set
• hot shift
• hot shoe
• hot-short
• hotshot
• hot-skull
• hot-spirited
• hot spot
• hot spring
• hotspur
• hot squat
• hot-stopping
• hot-stove
• hot stuff
• hot-swap
• hot tap

• hot tear
• hot tearing
• hot-tempered
• hotter
• hottie
• hotting
• hottish
• hot to trot
• hot-trod
• hot tub
• hot tube
• hot under the collar
• hot up
• hot wall
• hot war
• hot water
• hot wave
• hot well
• hot wind
• hot-wire
• hot-wired
• hot with
• hot-work
• hot-working
• in hot pursuit
• like a cat on hot bricks
• make it hot for, make things hot for
• run hot
• smoking hot
• too hot for
• too hot to hold

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Translations

having a high temperature

Ainu: {{セセㇰ}}, {{セイセㇰ}} Albanian: {{nxehtë}} Arabic: [[حَارّ# العربية: |حَارّ]] (ar) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}}, {{سَاخِن}} Armenian: {{տաք}} Asturian: {{caliente}} Azeri: [[isti# Azərbaycanca: |isti]] (az) Baba Malay: {{pane}} Bashkir: {{эҫе}} Belarusian: {{гара́чы}} Bengali: {{গরম}} Bulgarian: [[горещ# Български: |горещ]] (bg) Burmese: ပူ (my) Catalan: [[calent# Català: |calent]] (ca) Chamicuro: {{chpelo}} Chinese: Cantonese: {{熱}}, {{热}} Mandarin: 熱 (cmn), 热 (cmn) (rè) Min Nan: [[熱# Bân-lâm-gú: {{#invoke:Category handler|main}}|熱]] (nan), {{热}}, [[燒# Bân-lâm-gú: {{#invoke:Category handler|main}}|燒]] (nan), {{烧}} Czech: [[horký# Česky: |horký]] (cs) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}} Danish: [[varm# Dansk: |varm]] (da) Dutch: [[heet# Nederlands: |heet]] (nl), [[warm# Nederlands: |warm]] (nl) Esperanto: {{varmega}} Estonian: [[kuum# Eesti: |kuum]] (et) Faroese: {{heitur}} Finnish: [[kuuma# Suomi: |kuuma]] (fi) Franco-Provençal: {{chôd}} French: (très) [[chaud# Français : |chaud]] (fr) Friulian: {{cjalt}}, {{čhald}} Galician: [[quente# Galego: |quente]] (gl) Georgian: [[ცხელი# ქართული: |{{Template:Ka/script|lang=ka|ცხელი}}]] (ka) German: [[heiß# Deutsch: |heiß]] (de) Greek: [[ζεστός# Ελληνικά: |ζεστός]] (el) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}}, [[θερμός# Ελληνικά: |θερμός]] (el) Guaraní: {{aku}} (h-) Hebrew: חם (he) (kham) Hindi: {{गरम}}, {{गर्म}} Hungarian: [[forró# Magyar: |forró]] (hu) Icelandic: [[heitur# Íslenska: |heitur]] (is) Ido: [[varmega#Ido|{{Template:Io/script|lang=io|varmega}}]] (io) Indonesian: [[panas# Bahasa Indonesia: |panas]] (id) Interlingua: (multo) {{calide}} Irish: {{te}} Old Irish: {{té}} Italian: (molto) [[caldo# Italiano: |caldo]] (it) Japanese: (water, food) [[熱い# 日本語: |熱い]] (ja) (あつい, atsui) Javanese: [[panas# Basa Jawa: |{{Template:Jv/script|lang=jv|panas}}]] (jv) Kazakh: {{ыстық}} Khmer: ក្ដៅ (km) (kdav) Korean: (water, food) [[뜨겁다# 한국어: |뜨겁다]] (ko), (weather) [[덥다# 한국어: |덥다]] (ko) Kott: {{afam}}, {{fal}}, {{phal}}, {{paltu}}, {{palá}}, {{pfóltu}} Kurdish: Kurmanji: germ (ku), kel (ku) Sorani: گەرم (ku) (germ)

Kyrgyz: ысык (ky) Lao: {{ຮ້ອນ}} Latgalian: {{korsts}} Latin: [[calidus# Latina: |calidus]] (la), [[igneus# Latina: |igneus]] (la) Latvian: [[karsts# Latviešu: |karsts]] (lv) Lithuanian: {{karštas}} Lojban: {{glare}} Macedonian: {{врел}}, {{жежок}}, {{топол}} (manageably hot) Malay: [[panas# Bahasa Melayu: |panas]] (ms) Maltese: {{sħun}} Marathi: {{गरम}} Mongolian: {{халуун}} Norwegian: [[varm# ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: |varm]] (no), [[het# ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: |het]] (no) Old English: {{hāt}}, {{wearm}} Old Saxon: {{hēt}}, {{warm}} Pashto: [[تود#Pashto|{{Template:Ps/script|lang=ps|تود}}]] (ps) (tod), {{ګرم}} Pennsylvania German: {{heess}} Persian: [[داغ# فارسی: |داغ]] (fa) (dâğ) Polish: [[gorący# Polski: |gorący]] (pl) Portuguese: (muito) [[quente#Português|quente]] (pt) Quechua: {{rupha}} Romanian: [[cald# Română: |cald]] (ro), [[fierbinte# Română: |fierbinte]] (ro) Russian: (water, food) [[горя́чий# Русский: |горя́чий]] (ru) Scottish Gaelic: {{teth}} Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: врућ (sh) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}} Roman: vruć (sh) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}} Sinhalese: {{රස්නෙ}} Slovak: {{horúci}} Slovene: [[vroč# Slovenščina: |vroč]] (sl) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}} Spanish: [[caliente# Español: |caliente]] (es), {{muy caliente}} Swedish: [[het# Svenska: |het]] (sv), [[varm# Svenska: |varm]] (sv) Tagalog: {{mainit}}, {{nakapapaso}} Tajik: {{доғ}} Tatar: {{эссе}} Telugu: {{వేడైన}} Thai: [[ร้อน# ไทย: |ร้อน]] (th) (ron) Tibetan: {{ཚ་པོ}} Tupinambá: {{akub}} (s-) Turkish: [[sıcak# Türkçe: |sıcak]] (tr) Turkmen: {{yssy}} Tuvan: {{изиг}}, {{хайныышкынныг}} Ukrainian: (water, food) {{гаря́чий}} Urdu: {{گرم}} Uzbek: {{issiq}} Vietnamese: [[nóng# Tiếng Việt: |nóng]] (vi) Volapük: hitik (vo) Welsh: [[poeth# Cymraeg: |poeth]] (cy) Yiddish: {{הייס}} Zazaki: {{germ}}, {{germ}}

of the weather

Ainu: {{シㇼポㇷ゚ケ}} Arabic: {{حَرَّان}} Bashkir: {{эҫе}} Chinese: Cantonese: {{熱}}, {{热}}, {{炎熱}}, {{炎热}} Mandarin: 熱 (cmn), 热 (cmn) (rè), 炎熱 (cmn), 炎热 (cmn) (yánrè) Min Nan: [[熱# Bân-lâm-gú: {{#invoke:Category handler|main}}|熱]] (nan), {{热}}, {{炎熱}}, {{炎热}}, {{燒熱}}, {{烧热}} Czech: [[horký# Česky: |horký]] (cs) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}} Finnish: [[kuuma# Suomi: |kuuma]] (fi) French: {{faire chaud}} German: [[heiß# Deutsch: |heiß]] (de) Greek: {{κάνει ζέστη}} Italian: [[caldo# Italiano: |caldo]] (it) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}} Japanese: (weather) [[暑い# 日本語: |暑い]] (ja) (あつい, atsui) Latvian: [[karsts# Latviešu: |karsts]] (lv) Macedonian: {{врело}}, {{жешко}} Ngarrindjeri: {{waldi}}

Norwegian: {{varmt}}, [[hett# ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: |hett]] (no) Pashto: {{تودوخي}}, {{ګرمي}} Persian: [[گرم# فارسی: |گرم]] (fa) (garm) Polish: [[gorący# Polski: |gorący]] (pl) Portuguese: [[quente#Português|quente]] (pt) Romanian: [[cald# Română: |cald]] (ro) Russian: [[жа́ркий# Русский: |жа́ркий]] (ru), it is hot: [[жа́рко# Русский: |жа́рко]] (ru) Spanish: [[caluroso# Español: |caluroso]] (es), [[cálido# Español: |cálido]] (es) Swedish: [[varm# Svenska: |varm]] (sv), [[het# Svenska: |het]] (sv) Tajik: {{гарм}} Thai: [[ร้อน# ไทย: |ร้อน]] (th) (ron) Ukrainian: {{спеко́тний}} Volapük: hitik (vo) Zazaki: {{germ}}

feeling the sensation of heat

Finnish: [[kuuma# Suomi: |kuuma]] (fi) French: to be hot: avoir chaud (the adjective cannot be translated alone in this sense) Italian: to be hot: avere caldo (the adjective cannot be translated alone in this sense) Latvian: I am hot: man ir karsti Macedonian: I am hot: топло ми е (tóplo mi e), жешко ми е (žéško mi e)

Norwegian: [[varm# ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: |varm]] (no) Persian: [[گرم# فارسی: |گرم]] (fa) (garm) Portuguese: [[quente#Português|quente]] (pt) Russian: I am hot: мне жарко (mne žárko) Spanish: Template:Gloss tener calor Swedish: [[varm# Svenska: |varm]] (sv) Thai: [[ร้อน# ไทย: |ร้อน]] (th) (ron) Zazaki: {{germ}}

feverish

Chinese: Mandarin: 发烧 (cmn) (fāshāo) Finnish: {{kuumeinen}} French: [[fiévreux# Français : |fiévreux]] (fr) Greek: [[ζεστός# Ελληνικά: |ζεστός]] (el) Italian: [[febbrile# Italiano: |febbrile]] (it) Latin: {{febriculosus}} Macedonian: {{врел}} Norwegian: [[varm# ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: |varm]] (no), [[het# ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: |het]] (no)

Pashto: [[تود#Pashto|{{Template:Ps/script|lang=ps|تود}}]] (ps) (tod), {{ګرم}} Portuguese: [[febril#Português|febril]] (pt) Romanian: [[febril# Română: |febril]] (ro) Russian: [[лихора́дочный# Русский: |лихора́дочный]] (ru), [[горя́чий# Русский: |горя́чий]] (ru) Spanish: [[febril# Español: |febril]] (es), {{con calentura}} Swedish: [[het# Svenska: |het]] (sv), [[varm# Svenska: |varm]] (sv), [[febrig# Svenska: |febrig]] (sv) Telugu: {{వెచ్చగా}} Thai: {{ตัวร้อน}} Zazaki: {{germ}}

spicy

Chamicuro: {{chawa}} Chinese: Cantonese: {{辣}} Mandarin: 辣 (cmn) (là) Min Nan: [[辣# Bân-lâm-gú: {{#invoke:Category handler|main}}|辣]] (nan) (lo̍ah), [[薟# Bân-lâm-gú: {{#invoke:Category handler|main}}|薟]] (nan), {{莶}} Czech: [[ostrý# Česky: |ostrý]] (cs) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}} Dutch: [[pittig# Nederlands: |pittig]] (nl), [[pikant# Nederlands: |pikant]] (nl), [[heet# Nederlands: |heet]] (nl) Finnish: [[tulinen# Suomi: |tulinen]] (fi), {{polttava}} French: [[épicé# Français : |épicé]] (fr), [[piquant# Français : |piquant]] (fr) German: [[scharf# Deutsch: |scharf]] (de) Greek: [[πικάντικος# Ελληνικά: |πικάντικος]] (el), [[καυτερός# Ελληνικά: |καυτερός]] (el) Hindi: {{गरम}} Indonesian: [[pedas# Bahasa Indonesia: |pedas]] (id) Italian: {{piccante}} Javanese: {{pedhes}} Khmer: ហឹរ (km) (həl) Korean: [[맵다# 한국어: |맵다]] (ko) Kurdish: Sorani: تیژ (ku) (tîj) Latin: [[acer# Latina: |acer]] (la), {{mordax}} Latvian: [[ass# Latviešu: |ass]] (lv)

Macedonian: {{лут}}, {{лута}}, {{луто}} Malay: {{pedas}} Marathi: {{गरम}} Mongolian: Template:T-needed Norwegian: [[sterk# ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: |sterk]] (no) Polish: [[ostry# Polski: |ostry]] (pl), [[pikantny# Polski: |pikantny]] (pl) Portuguese: [[picante#Português|picante]] (pt) Romanian: [[iute# Română: |iute]] (ro), [[picant# Română: |picant]] (ro) Russian: [[о́стрый# Русский: |о́стрый]] (ru) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: {{љут}} Roman: {{ljut}} Spanish: [[picante# Español: |picante]] (es), {{picoso}} Swedish: [[het# Svenska: |het]] (sv), [[kryddstark# Svenska: |kryddstark]] (sv) Telugu: {{మంటగా}} Thai: [[เผ็ด# ไทย: |เผ็ด]] (th) (phet) Turkish: [[acı# Türkçe: |acı]] (tr), [[acılı# Türkçe: |acılı]] (tr) Vietnamese: [[cay# Tiếng Việt: |cay]] (vi) Volapük: pitik (vo) Zazaki: {{tun}}, {{tunın}}

slang: stolen

Danish: {{varm}} Finnish: [[kuuma# Suomi: |kuuma]] (fi), {{nyysitty}}, {{käännetty}} French: [[chouré# Français : |chouré]] (fr) German: [[heiß# Deutsch: |heiß]] (de)

Portuguese: {{roubado}}, {{furtado}} Spanish: [[tranzado# Español: |tranzado]] (es) Swedish: [[stulen# Svenska: |stulen]] (sv)

electrically charged

radioactive

slang: physically very attractive

Chinese: Mandarin: {{帅呆了}} Danish: {{hot}}, [[lækker# Dansk: |lækker]] (da) Dutch: [[lekker# Nederlands: |lekker]] (nl), [[heet# Nederlands: |heet]] (nl), [[geil# Nederlands: |geil]] (nl), [[porno# Nederlands: |porno]] (nl) (coarse slang) Finnish: [[kuuma# Suomi: |kuuma]] (fi), [[seksikäs# Suomi: |seksikäs]] (fi) French: [[sexy# Français : |sexy]] (fr), (coarse slang) [[bonne# Français : |bonne]] (fr) Sample.svg German: [[heiß# Deutsch: |heiß]] (de), [[scharf# Deutsch: |scharf]] (de) Indonesian: [[seksi# Bahasa Indonesia: |seksi]] (id)

Italian: [[figo# Italiano: |figo]] (it) {{[[Modèle:|]]||}}, [[figa# Italiano: |figa]] (it) Sample.svg, [[gnocca# Italiano: |gnocca]] (it) Sample.svg Lithuanian: {{ugningas}} Norwegian: [[het# ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: |het]] (no), {{heit}}, [[lekker# ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: |lekker]] (no), {{sexy}} Portuguese: [[gostoso#Português|gostoso]] (pt) Romanian: [[bun# Română: |bun]] (ro) Spanish: [[sensual# Español: |sensual]] (es), [[bueno# Español: |bueno]] (es), [[caliente# Español: |caliente]] (es) Swedish: [[het# Svenska: |het]] (sv) Thai: {{มีสเน่ห์}}

popular, in demand

very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed

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Translations to be checked

: tomm (1), terzhiennek (2), spisaet (3) Esperanto: Template:T-check

Galego: : Template:T-check (1, 2) ქართული: : Template:T-check (tskhel-i)

Verb

Hot (third-person singular simple present [[hots#

English:

|hots]], present participle [[hotting#

English:

|hotting]], simple past and past participle [[hotted#

English:

|hotted]])

1. Template:Cx To heat; to make or become hot.
2. Template:Cx To become lively or exciting.

Synonyms

• hot up; heat, heat up

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: eat · et · scene · #845: hot · I'd · fifty · trust

Anagrams

• tho, tho', thô

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Pennsylvania German

Verb

{{ Template:Pdc/script |Hot|face=head|lang=pdc}}

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• /huːt/
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Noun

1. a threat

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