boiling-hot
adj1
Synonym of boiling hot.
boiling hot
adjalso spelled boiling-hot1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see boiling, hot: very hot in a way that involves boiling of water or other liquids.
- Near-synonyms: scalding hot, piping hot
- Ouch! Don't sip your tea quite yet — it's still boiling hot!
2
Broadly, Idiomatic Extremely hot (having a high temperature: of an object, the weather, a living creature).
- Near-synonyms: scalding hot, piping hot, smoking hot
- Back then, if you were a regular person living in the Deep South, you were going to be boiling hot all summer long, no two ways about it — nobody but rich people had central air at home back then.