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
Romana-Italian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Late Roman
Bolton['bəultən]
Pau-Catalan, Occitan
ZakZAKEnglish
ReŞİDe-Turkish
Tyriqtie-REEKAfrican American (Modern)