hissing hot

== English == === Pronunciation === === Adjective === hissing hot (not comparable) (idiomatic, dated) Very hot. 1792, Hannah Cowley, A Day in Turkey: or, The Russian Slaves, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act II, p. 30,[1] […] a hissing hot fever laid hold of him; and the doctors, with all their rank and file of phials and bolusses, could hardly drive him out of his veins. ==== Synonyms ==== piping hot searing hot smoking hot