piping hot

短语

<口>滚热的, 非常新鲜的

发音

UK /ˌpaɪ.pɪŋ ˈhɒt/
US /ˌpaɪpɪŋ ˈhɑt/
AU

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piping, hot: very hot in a way that involves sizzling, crackling, or similar noises.

    Near-synonyms: boiling hot, scalding hot, steaming hot, steaming, baking hot; see also Thesaurus:hot

    Don't touch the pie! It's piping hot, straight out of the oven.

  2. 2.

    Very hot.

    习语

    Watch out — that curling iron is still piping hot.

词源

From Middle English. First attested circa second half of 14th century, from the similarity between the sizzling sound of food cooking in a frying pan and that of musical pipes, from Canterbury Tales http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2383 by Geoffrey Chaucer: :: "He singeth brokking¹ as a nightingale. / He sent her piment, mead, and spiced ale, / And wafers² piping hot out of the glede³: / And, for she was of town, he proffer'd meed." :: ¹ quavering, ² cakes, ³ coals

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