piping hot

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piping hot

/ˌpaɪ.pɪŋ ˈhɒt/ UK
/ˌpaɪpɪŋ ˈhɑt/ US

Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

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

adjective

not comparable 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
Similar: hissing hot, boiling hot, scalding hot, steaming hot, steaming, baking hot, hot, calid, choleric, heated · Opposite: freezing cold, freezing, ice-cold, icy, algid, Arctic, Baltic, boreal, brass monkeys, brumal, chill, chilled
broadly, idiomatic, not comparable Very hot. Watch out — that curling iron is still piping hot.
Similar: hissing hot, boiling hot, scalding hot, smoking hot, steaming hot, steaming, hot, calid, choleric, heated · Opposite: freezing cold, freezing, ice-cold, icy, algid, Arctic, Baltic, boreal, brass monkeys, brumal, chill, chilled

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adj very hot

हिन्दी	गर्मागर्म garmāgarm
Português	pelando
Français	brûlant
Deutsch	glühend heiß
Italiano	bollente
Русский	горячо gorjačo
Tiếng Việt	nóng hổi, nóng hôi hổi
עברית	לוֹהֵט lohét

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@misc{piping_hot_2026,
  title = {piping hot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/piping%20hot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}