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
JacobJAY-kəb (English), YAH-kawp (Dutch)English, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Jewish, Biblical
Timoteotee-mo-TE-o (Italian, Spanish)Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Baldev-Indian, Hindi
Vartan-Armenian
Vered-Hebrew
ByronBIE-rənEnglish