boiling
adjEtymology From boil + -ing.
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That boils or boil.
- boiling kettle boiling oil
- The radiator is boiling – I’m going to turn it down a bit.
- With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which now, in mid-morning, was in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.1963, Margery Allingham, “Conference in the Morning”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 130:
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- As I collected some individuals from a nest, an alarm was sent and a boiling mass of ants issued from the colony.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 37:
- Derived terms
- boiling frog, boiling hot, boilingly, boiling mad, nonboiling