Hot
HOT, adj., sb. and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and
Eng. Also in forms heat Cai.1 n.Yks.; heeat n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4;
het Sc. Bnff.1 N.Cy.1 Nhb.1 Dur.1 Lakel.2 Cum.1 Cum.4 Wm.;
hoat, hote Wxf.1; oot- Shr.1; ot- War.2; yat n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4
e.Yks.1 m.Yks.1 [h)ot, h)iət, het, yat, w.Yks. ut.] 1. adj.
In comb. (1) Hot-ache, the tingling sensation and pains
caused by sudden warmth after extreme cold; (2) Hot-bitch, a
bitch in the rutting season; (3) Hot-brained, hot-tempered, hotheaded;
(4) Hot-broan, a firebrand; (5) Hot-chills, the fever
accompanying ague; (6) Hot-drinks, warm drinks of a cordial
nature; (7) Hot-evil, fever [not known to our correspondents];
(8) Hot-flares, accesses of heat in sickness; (9) Hot-foot,
(10) Hot-foot-hot, at once, immediately, full speed, in great
haste; (11) Hot-gingerbread, gingerbread having in it a
mixture of ginger and cayenne; (12) Hot-hands, a children's
game, see below; (13) Hot-hive, an eruption or small boil;
(14) Hot-house (Hot-us), the stove in which salt is dried in salt-making;
(15) Hot-loof, a game; (16) Hot-millo, a boys' game, see
below; (17) Hot-pickles, a scolding, trouble; (18) Hot-pint, a hot
beverage composed of ale, spirits, and other ingredients,
and drunk esp. on New Year's eve or early morning; (19)
Hot-posset, hot milk and bread; (20) Hot-pot, (a) a mixture of
warmed ale and spirits, with other ingredients; (b) a dish
of meat and potatoes baked together; an Irish stew; (c)
a melting-pot; a keeper of a melting-pot; (21) Hot-seed, early
grain or peas; (22) Hot-skin, a thrashing, beating; (23)
Hot-skinned, irascible, hot-tempered; (24) Hot-spoken, sharp of
speech; (25) Hot-spurred, see (10); (26) Hot-stoup, see (18); (27)
Hot-trod, obs., the pursuit of Border marauders; the signal for
the pursuit; also used fig.; (28) Hot-tuik, a bad taste; (29)
Hot-wardens, pears; (30) Hot-waters, spirits; (31) Hot-weeds,
annual weeds, such as field-mustard, &c.; (32) Hot-whittle or
Hot-whissel, a borer or skewer heated red-hot for the purpose
of boring a hole through wood.
(1) w.Yks.2, Not.1 n.Lin. Sutton Wds. (1881); n.Lin.1 sw.Lin.1
I oftens get the hotache in my foot, and very bad it is; it comes
on when my foot's starved with hinging out the clothes. Nhp.1,
Lei.1, War.3 Bdf. My hands have got the hot-ache (J.W.B.).
Hnt. (T.P.F.) Nrf. Common (M.C.H.B.). (2) Gall. Mactaggart
Encycl. (1824). (3) n.Yks. I allas knew 'at sha was a heeatbrain'd
'en (W.H.). (4) Wxf.1 (5) Sus.1 (6) Gall. Mactaggart Encycl.
(1824). (7) Dev. (Hall.) (8) Hmp. I have nasty hot-flares
(T.L.O.D.). (9) Sc. But to go to him hot-foot from Appin's agent
was little likely to mend my own affairs, Stevenson Catriona
(1893) i. Abd. Rin awa noo het-fit an' bring him here. Rin het-fit,
I'm sayin' (G.W.). w.Sc. Burns heard of the elopement with
surprise and followed the pair ‘hot foot’ to Killie, Carrick Laird
of Logan (1835) 49. Ir. I can run on hot foot, Barrington
Sketches (1830) I. xii; Set off hot-foot to the wake, Croker Leg.
Killarney (1829) I. 83, in Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.) N.Cy.1, Lakel.2
Cum. He's geaan het feutt efter a fella they co Arch, Sargisson
Joe Scoap (1881) 64; Cum.4 Wm. Ah set off het fiut i mi majesty
(B.K.). m.Yks.1 Lan.1 He coom deawn hot-foot, bent on havin'
a quarrel. n.Lin.1 As soon as she heärd on it she went off hotfoot
to oor Tom's, an' tell'd him what foäks was saayin'. Brks.
‘Now's your time, Billy,’ says I, and up the hedge I cuts, hotfoot,
to get betwixt he and our bounds, Hughes T. Brown Oxf.
(1861) xxxvi. Mid. They made off, hot foot, for the cart, Blackmore
Kit (1890) II. viii. Cor. ‘I'll ha' 'ee!’ cries the Squire; an'
wi' that pulls hot foot roun' the hill, ‘Q.’ Troy Town (1888) xix.
(10) Dur.1 s.Dur. She ran het foot het to her neighbours
with any piece of gossip she got hold of, Weardale Forest Ann.
ne.Lan.1 (11) Lan. [When ‘pace-egging’] children... go up and
down from house to house; at some receiving pence,.. at others
gingerbread, some of which is called hot gingerbread,.. causing
the most ridiculous contortions of feature in the unfortunate being
who partakes of it, Harland & Wilkinson Flk-Lore (1867) 230.
(12) Rxb. A number of children place one hand above another on
a table till the column is completed, when the one whose hand is
undermost pulls it out and claps it on the top, and thus in rotation
(Jam.). (13) Nhb.1 (14) Chs.1 (15) Ir. The first play we began
was hot-loof, Carleton Traits Peas. (ed. 1843) I. 106. (16) War.2
A kneels with his face in B's lap, the other players standing in
the background. They step forward one by one, at a signal from
B, who says of each in turn, ‘'Otmillo, 'Otmillo, where is this
poor man to go?’ A then assigns each one to a place. When
all are dispatched, A removes his face from B's lap, and, standing
up, exclaims, ‘Hot! Hot! Hot!’ The others then rush to him,
and the laggard is blindfolded instead of A. (17) Lin.1 (18) Sc.
I took a rest at Pepper-mill, A het-pint and a double gill, Pennecuik
Collection (1787) 16; The hot beverage which it is customary
for young people to carry with them from house to house
on New-Year's-eve, or early in the morning of the New Year;
used also on the night preceding a marriage and at the time of
child-bearing... This is made of spirits, beer, sugar, and eggs
(Jam.). Frf. A het pint in a cup maun neist be made To drink the
health o' her that's brought to bed, Morison Poems (1790) 191.
Rnf. The first fit bauldly fronts the storm. The maudlin' het
pint's heavenly power Has rais'd a flame that brings the shower,
Picken Poems (1813) I. 78. Lnk. I'd toddle butt, an' I'd toddle ben,
Wi' the hearty het pint an' the canty black hen, Rodger Poems
(1838) 56, ed. 1897. Lth. The kettle then on ingle clear, Boils fu'
o' ale an' whisky; Wi' eggs an' sucker,.. To mak a birkie frisky.
... Fu' o' het pints he'll bauldly dash, Bruce Poems (1813) II. 17.
Edb. I agreed to a cupful of het-pint, Moir Mansie Wauch (1828)
xix; Among the lower classes of the people, it is customary for
some person in each family to rise very early in New Year's Morning
and prepare a kind of caudle, consisting of ale mixed with
eggs, beat up with sugar and a little spirits, prepared hot, which
is carried through every apartment in a stoup containing a Scots
pint; and a cup of this is offered to each person when in bed.
This beverage is technically called het pints, New Year's Morning
(1792) 7. Dmf. Until twelve o'clock announces the new year,
when people are ready at their neighbours' houses with het-pints,
and buttered cakes, Cromek Remains (1810) 46. N.Cy.1, Nhb.1
(19) Wm. She'd give a het-posset her belly to warm, Whitehead
Leg. (1859) 7. Yks. (J.W.) (20, a) N.Cy.1 Dur. An aged fisher
woman... tells me that at her wedding there were seventy hot
pots, Henderson Flk-Lore (1879) 1. n.Yks. (C.A.F.); n.Yks.1
Pots of hot spiced ale brought out by the friends of a newly-wedded
couple to be partaken of by the bridal party as they return
from church; n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4 Nhp.1 Spiced, sweetened, and thickened
with eggs and flour. e.An.1, Nrf. (W.R.E.) w.Nrf. He... is too
comfortable with his ‘hot pot’ to quit his present quarters, Orton
Beeston Ghost (1884) 5. e.Suf. (F.H.) Lon. Sponsors at low
christenings pretty far advanced in liquor, by too plentiful a drinking
of common beer, hot-pots, and Geneva punch, Low Life (1764)
98. Sus.1 Sus.2 Hmp.1 Not very common. (b) ne.Lan.1, Chs.1,
s.Chs.1, War.3 (c) War.3 A hot-pot is so called because it is
always kept at smelting heat. It is kept ostensibly for purposes
of trade, but is usually regarded as being kept for the convenience
of thieves. To be known as a hot-pot is to be regarded
with opprobrium. The name has in some instances stuck to a man
for life, e.g. ‘Hot-pot Smith,’ or ‘Hot-pot Jones.’ (21) Bwk.
These [oats] are distinguished into hot seed and cold seed, the
former of which ripens much earlier than the letter [sic], Agric.
Surv. 243 (Jam.). Rxb. Peas are sown of two kinds. One of
them is called hot seed or early peas, Agric. Surv. 87 (Jam.).
Nhb. Young Annals Agric. (1784-1815) XXI. 225. (22) Sc. I'll
gie ye a guid het skin (Jam.). (23) Sc. (JAM.), Cai.1 (24) n.Yks.2 (25)
Dmb. I'm aff, het spurred, to gain the prize, Salmon Gowodean
(1868) 117. (26) Peb. Het stoups an' punch around war sent,
Nicol Poems (1805) I. 147 (Jam.). (27) s.Sc. The pursuit of Border
marauders was followed by the injured party and his friends
with blood-hounds and bugle-horn, and was called the hot·trod,
Scott Lay Last Minst. (1806) 308 n. (Jam., s.v. Futehate) N.Cy.1
Nhb. Richardson Borderer's Table-bk. (1846) VII. 97; Nhb.1 A
wisp of straw or tow mounted on the top of a spear and set on fire
and carried through the Border country. Its display was the signal
for every man to arm and follow the pursuit on the track of a
marauder, the ‘war path’ of the Borderers. Cum. A thief might
be pursued into the opposite realm within six days, and the chace
carried on, as the term is, in hot trod, with hound and horn, with
hue and cry, Hutchinson Hist. Cum. (1794) I. 24; Cum.1 He
follo't the reivers on the het trod. (28) Lnk., Lth., Rxb. When
meal is made from corn that has been heated in the stack, the
peculiar taste is denominated the het tuik (Jam., s.v. Teuk). (29)
Lon. Mayhew Lond. Labour (1851) I. 8. (30) Sc. (A.W.), n.Cy.
(Hall.) (31) Bnff.1 (32) Cum.4 Wm. Ah's garn to mak a burtri
gun, len us thi het-whittle (B.K.).
2. Phr. (1) hot and hot, (2) hot as hot, (3) hot as a piper, very
hot, as hot as can be; (4) hot beans and butter, a children's
game, similar to ‘hunt the thimble’; (5) a hot cup of tea,
(a) a bad bargain; an unexpected loss or accident; (b) an
unruly, troublesome girl; (6) hot in the pepper, ‘hot,’ uncomfortable,
of a dangerous situation; (7) hot rows and
butter baiks, a boys' game; see below; (8) to be hot ahame,
to have a comfortable domestic settlement; to be comfortable
at home; (9) be hot in the house, a saying used of those
who come out in inclement weather without reason; (10)
be kept in hot water, to be in a constant state of anxiety or
suspense; (11) be in hot water, to be at variance or on ill
terms with; (12) be o'er hot, to make a change for the
worse from restlessness or folly; (13) to carry hot water
with one, to bring ill-will with one, to quarrel; (14) to hold
one in hot water, to keep one in a state of constant uneasiness
or anxiety; (15) to make anything with a hot needle
and burning thread, to sew very slightly.
(1) Der. As for the pikelets... butter 'um as folks want 'um,
hot and hot, Verney Stone Edge (1868) iii. (2) n.Cy. (J.W.),
Nhp.1, Hnt. (T.P.F.) (3) e.Suf. (F.H.) (4) Rxb. One hides something
and another is employed to seek it. When near the place
of concealment, the hider cries ‘Het,’ i.e. hot on the scent; when
the seeker is far from it, ‘Cald.’.. He who finds it has the right
to hide it next (Jam.). (5) e.Suf. (F.H.) (6) w.Wor. Whin he
begins it gits rayther too hot i' the pepper fur me, S. Beauchamp
N. Hamilton (1875) I. 91. (7) Frf. One boy stood against the hillside
or against a wall, and another boy, putting his head against
the first one's stomach, made a ‘backie,’ which was immediately
mounted by one of the boys from the crowd, who was not supposed
to be known to the one he bestrode. The captain of the
game would now address the bowing lad,.. ‘Lanceman, lanceman,
lo! Where shall this poor Scotchman go? Shall he go
east, or shall he go west, Or shall he go to the huddie craw's nest?’
If he was sent to the hooded crow's nest, he ranged himself alongside
number one. If otherwise he had to go to some indicated
post and there remain until all engaged in the game were placed
in their various positions. The three chief actors and all who had
remained in ‘the crow's nest’ ranged themselves in line, and..
the captain now yelled out ‘Het rows and butter baiks,’ whereupon
all those that had been banished to the outposts came rushing
in, attempting to touch number one, who was surrounded by his
legion of bonneters, who smacked and thrashed the invaders.
When the ‘draiglers,’ as the invading party were called, had
touched number one, they in turn became the defending party,
Inglis Ain Flk. (1895) 110. (8) Gall. (Jam.); It is said of those
who wander abroad when they have no need to do so, and happen
to fare ill, that they were het ahame, Mactaggart Encycl. (1824).
(9) N.I.1 You were hot in the house. (10) Nhp.1, Hnt. (T.P.F.)
(11) Not.1, Lei.1, War.3 (12) Cai.1 He wiz o'er heat. (13) Not.1
Lei.1 A carries 'ot water wi' 'im wherivver a goos. War.3 (14)
Sc. That bairn hauds me ay in het water; for he's sae fordersum
(Jam.). (15) Oxf.1, Sur. (L.J.Y.)
3. Warm, comfortable.
Sc. The jinketing and the jirbling wi' tea and wi' trumpery that
brings mony a het ha' house to a hired lodging in the Abbey,
Scott St. Ronan (1824) x.
4. sb. Heat.
Sh.&Ork.1 What a hot it is. Wxf.1 s.Chs.1 Aay red yŭr
aa·rmz bin, Em·ŭ! Iz it wi kuwd? Wel, it i)n·ŭ wi ot ['Ha'ï
red yur arms bin, Emma! Is it wi' cowd?’ ‘Well, it inna wi'
hot']. Dev. Wull then in es gose, bit moast daid way that hot,
Nathan Hogg Poet. Lett. (1847) 15, ed. 1865.
5. v. To make hot, to heat, warm, esp. to warm up
cooked food. Also with up.
e.Yks.1 Yatten, pp., MS. add. (T.H.) m.Yks.1, w.Yks. (F.M.L.),
w.Yks.2 Chs.1 I've hotted the water; Chs.3 s.Chs.1 Tŭ ot dhŭ
óon [to hot the oven]. Tŭ ot kuwd tai·tŭz ùp ŭgy'en·. Der.2,
nw.Der.1, Not.1 n.Lin.1 Hot me this iron Alice, my lass, an' bring
it by ageän as soon as ta can. sw.Lin.1 She hotted up his dinner
for him. Rut.1 I hot her a few broth. Lei.1 There's no hot water,
but I'll hot some. Nhp.1, War.2 War.3 War.4, s.War.1 Shr.1 Draw some
drink an' 'ot it fur the men's suppers. Glo. (F.H.), Glo.1 Oxf.
(G.O.); Oxf.1 MS. add. Bdf. (J.W.B.), Hnt. (T.P.F.), Lon. (F.H.)
Sur.1 We jist lit a fire to hot our kettles. Sus.1 I was that cold
when I got indoors that gaffer hotted up some beer for me. Wil.
A piece of roast beef, that had been, as the housekeeper explained,
‘hotted up,’ Riddell The Senior Partner, i. Dev. If yü widden
mind a scrap-dinner yü cüde have tha cold beef hotted up intü a
hash tü-day, Hewett Peas. Sp. (1892); I never can get a plate
hotted through, Sharland Ways and Means (1885) 45.
Hence (1) Hotted, ppl. adj. warmed up, made hot; (2)
Hotter, sb. a heater, a long funnel-shaped tin vessel put into
the fire to warm a liquid quickly; also called Hastener (q.v.).
(1) n.Yks.2 w.Yks.2 Hotted meat. Der.2 Hotted ale. nw.Der.1
(2) Shr.1
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HOT, HO'T, see Hit, v., Hurt, Holt, sb.1
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HOT, HOTT, sb. Sc. Nhb. Cum. Wm. Yks. Lan. Chs. e.An.
Also in forms haut Lan.1; ott Chs.3; hut Dmf. [h)ot.]
- A square basket or pannier used for carrying manure,
&c.; gen. in pl. Also called Muck hot.
Dmf. Shaw Schoolmaster (1899) 349. Gall. (Jam.) n.Cy. ‘A
pair of hots,’ two hampers of wood to lay cross a horse (K.); To
carry turf or slate in, Grose (1790); N.Cy.1 Cum. We carry't
t'muck i' hots, Richardson Talk (1871) 57, ed. 1876; Muck's to
be carry't in hots or in creels, Dickinson Cumbr. (1876) 244;
Gl. (1851); Cum.1 Muck hots; Cum.2 Wm. Used for carrying
manure into fields of steep ascent, one being hung on each side of
a pack-saddle. The bottom being opened by two wooden pins
emptied the contents (J.H.). w.Yks. Hutton Tour to Caves
(1781); w.Yks.1, ne.Lan.1 - A ‘hot(t-load,’ a heap of manure or lime in a field; a
small heap of any kind carelessly put up.
Sc. There was hay to ca' and lint to lead, A hunder hotts o'
muck to spread, Chambers Sngs. (1829) I. 269. Slk. Will then
laid his arm over the boy and the hott o' claes and fell sound
asleep, Hogg Perils of Man (1822) II. 255 (Jam.). Rxb. ‘A hot of
muck,’ as much dung as is laid down from a cart in the field at one
place in order to its being spread out. ‘A hot of stones,’ &c. (Jam.)
N.Cy.1 When persons or things are huddled or clumped together,
they are said to be ‘all in a hott.’ Cum.1 - A finger-stall or cover used to protect a cut or sore;
a small bag to hold a poultice to protect a sore finger.
Lan.1, e.Lan.1, Chs.1 Chs.3, s.Chs.1 Cf. hottle, sb.1, hut, sb.3
Hence Hotkin, sb. a case for a sore finger. e.An.1
[1. OF. hotte, a pannier or creel.]
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HOT, HOTT, sb. Sc. Nhb. Cum. Wm. Yks. Lan. Chs. e.An.
Also in forms haut Lan.1; ott Chs.3; hut Dmf. [h)ot.] - A square basket or pannier used for carrying manure,
&c.; gen. in pl. Also called Muck hot.
Dmf. Shaw Schoolmaster (1899) 349. Gall. (Jam.) n.Cy. ‘A
pair of hots,’ two hampers of wood to lay cross a horse (K.); To
carry turf or slate in, Grose (1790); N.Cy.1 Cum. We carry't
t'muck i' hots, Richardson Talk (1871) 57, ed. 1876; Muck's to
be carry't in hots or in creels, Dickinson Cumbr. (1876) 244;
Gl. (1851); Cum.1 Muck hots; Cum.2 Wm. Used for carrying
manure into fields of steep ascent, one being hung on each side of
a pack-saddle. The bottom being opened by two wooden pins
emptied the contents (J.H.). w.Yks. Hutton Tour to Caves
(1781); w.Yks.1, ne.Lan.1 - A ‘hot(t-load,’ a heap of manure or lime in a field; a
small heap of any kind carelessly put up.
Sc. There was hay to ca' and lint to lead, A hunder hotts o'
muck to spread, Chambers Sngs. (1829) I. 269. Slk. Will then
laid his arm over the boy and the hott o' claes and fell sound
asleep, Hogg Perils of Man (1822) II. 255 (Jam.). Rxb. ‘A hot of
muck,’ as much dung as is laid down from a cart in the field at one
place in order to its being spread out. ‘A hot of stones,’ &c. (Jam.)
N.Cy.1 When persons or things are huddled or clumped together,
they are said to be ‘all in a hott.’ Cum.1 - A finger-stall or cover used to protect a cut or sore;
a small bag to hold a poultice to protect a sore finger.
Lan.1, e.Lan.1, Chs.1 Chs.3, s.Chs.1 Cf. hottle, sb.1, hut, sb.3
Hence Hotkin, sb. a case for a sore finger. e.An.1
[1. OF. hotte, a pannier or creel.]
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HOT, adj. Yks. Lin. In phr. (1) as hot as hot, very
hot, as hot as can be; (2) to sew with hot needle and burnt
thread, see below.
(1) n.Yks. (I.W.) (2) n.Lin. ‘When sewing is done with brittle
thread, or otherwise so badly that it breaks easily, it is said to
have been done ‘wi' hot needle an' bo'nt thread’ (s.v. Sewing).