subs. (Winchester College).—1. A mellay at football.
2. (Ibid.).—A crowd.
1878. H. C. ADAMS, Wykehamica, p. 367. It would be replaced and a fresh HOT formed.
Adj. (colloquial).—1. Of persons: sexually excitable; lecherous; ON HEAT (q.v.); RANDY (q.v.). Of things (as books): obscene; BLUE (q.v.); HIGH-KILTED (q.v.); HOT MEMBER (q.v.) = a male or female debauchee; or (as in sense 2), a man or woman contemptuous of decorum. HOT AS THEY MAKE THEM = exceedingly amorous or reckless. HOT-BLOODED = lecherous: as (in Merry Wives, v., 5) ‘the HOT-BLOODED gods assist me.’ HOT-HOUSE (q.v.) = a brothel.
1383. CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales, The Prologue, ll. 97–8.
| So hote he lovede, that by nightertale, | |
| He sleep no more than doth a nightyngale. |
1598. JONSON, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 8.
| Dost thou not shame, | |
| When all thy powers in chastity are spent, | |
| To have a mind so HOT? |
1598. SHAKESPEARE, 1 Henry IV., i. 2. A fair HOT wench in flame-coloured taffeta.
1599. HENRY PORTER, The Two Angry Women of Abingdon (DODSLEY, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, vii., 354). Are ye so HOT, with a pox? Would you kiss my mistress?
1605. JONSON, Volpone, or the Fox, iii., 6.
| I am, now, as fresh, | |
| As HOT, as high, and in as jovial plight, | |
| As when, in that so celebrated scene, | |
| At recitation of our comedy, | |
| For entertainment of the great Valois, | |
| I acted young Antinous. |
1608. SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 11.
| Besides what HOTTER hours, | |
| Unregister’d in vulgar fame, you have | |
| Luxuriously pick’d out. |
1614. JONSON, Bartholomew Fair, ii., 1. The whelp was HOT and eager.
1693. CONGREVE, The Old Bachelor, v., 8. If either you esteem my friendship or your own safety, come not near that house—that corner house—that HOT brothel.
1697. VANBRUGH, The Relapse, iii., 5. Young men are HOT, I know, but they don’t boil over at that rate.
1719. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, iv., 124. He laughs to see the girls so HOT.
1892. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, p. 37. As most of our plays are now cribbed from the French, wy they’re all pooty HOT.
2. (colloquial).—Careless of decorum; boisterous; utterly reckless and abandoned.
1888. J. RUNCIMAN, The Chequers, p. 187. You’re a RED-HOT MEMBER!
3. (thieves’).—Well known to the police; dangerous; uncomfortable; e.g., TO MARK IT HOT FOR ONE.
1830. BUCKSTONE, The Wreck Ashore, i. 4. Mil. This place is now too HOT for me, captain. Bills overdue, and bailiffs in full chase, have driven me to a hasty leave of my home.
1841. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, viii. 217. Finding all too HOT to hold him.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. HOT. ‘The cove had better move his beaters into Dewsville, it is too HOT for him here.’
1882. Evening Standard, 3 Oct., p. 5, c. 4. The Constable added that at the station the Prisoner told him that if he did not make it too HOT he would give him £5.
1888. Tit-Bits, 24 March, 373. The HOTTEST suburb of London during Jubilee year was supposed to be Ealing.
1890. H. B. MARRIOTT-WATSON, Broken Billy (in Under the Gum-tree, p. 31). With a few pals, almost as brutal as himself, he made the place pretty HOT from time to time.
1891. Morning Advertiser, 26 March, p. 2, col. 4. When Baker was arrested he asked Detective-sergeant Gold not to make it too HOT for them, and tried to induce the officer to receive a sovereign.
1891. J. NEWMAN, Scamping Tricks, p. 36. You’ll find they will make it HOT for you.
4. (colloquial).—See quot. 1696. Also violent; sharp; severe.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HOT, exceeding Passionate.
1886. R. L. STEVENSON, Kidnapped, p. 167. ‘Well,’ said he, ‘yon was a HOT burst, David.’
1893. P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, ch. xvi. I started life in a training stable, and a HOT life it was for a boy.
5. (venery).—Infected; venereally diseased.
6. (colloquial).—Alive; vehement; instant.
1864. BROWNING, Dramatic Romances (ed. 1879, iv., 180), ‘The Italian in England.’ Breathed HOT and instant on my train.
Verb (Winchester College).—To crowd; to mob.
TO GIVE (GET, or CATCH) IT HOT, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To thrash or reprove soundly; to be severely beaten or taken to task.
1859. Fast Life, p. 54. The craters, of course, CAUGHT IT HOT, and many had the sack.
1872. Figaro, 22 June. The German Emperor, Bismarck, and Earl Granville also GOT IT, but not quite so HOTLY.
1877. W. H. THOMSON, Five Years’ Penal Servitude, iv. 287. A young man who … had been guilty of bigamy, and to such a decree that he ‘GOT IT HOT’ for such a crime—five years.
1892. T. A. GUTHRIE (‘F. Anstey’), Mr. Punch’s Model Music-Hall Songs & Dramas, 32. She spotted me in ’alf a jiff, and chaffed me precious HOT!
LIKE A CAT ON HOT BRICKS, phr. (colloquial).—Uncomfortable; restive.
1886. J. S. WINTER, Army Society, ch. xvi. Lady Mainwaring looked like an eel in a frying-pan, or, most of anything perhaps, LIKE A CAT ON HOT BRICKS.
HOT WITH, phr. (common).—Spirits with hot water and sugar. See CIDER AND, and COLD WITHOUT.
