piping hot



piping hot

[of food] extremely hot. On a cold day, I like to eat piping hot soup. Be careful! This coffee is piping hot!
See also: hot

piping hot

Very hot, as in These biscuits are piping hot. This idiom alludes to something so hot that it makes a piping or hissing sound. [Late 1300s]
See also: hot

piping hot

Very hot: piping hot biscuits.
See also: hot

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
CedricSED-rikEnglish
Africa (2)-Irish, Scottish
Larisalah-REE-sah (Russian)Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Latvian, Greek Mythology
Iseut-Medieval English
Clementinakle-men-TEE-nah (Italian, Spanish), klə-mən-TEE-nə (Portuguese)Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
EulaYOO-ləEnglish