1878. 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, Canterbury Tales. Prologue to Canterbury Tales,
lines 97 and 98. So hote he lovede, that by nightertale, He sleep
no more than doth a nightyngale.
1596. Ben 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. Shakspeare, 1 Henry IV., i., 2. A fair hot wench in
flame-coloured taffeta.
1599. H. Porter, Two Angry Women of Abingdon (Dodsley, Old Plays,
4th ed., 1875, vii., 354). Are ye so hot, with a pox? Would ye kiss
my mistress?
1605. Jonson, Volpone, 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. Shakspeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iii., 11. Besides what
hotter hours, Unregistered in vulgar fame you have Luxuriously
picked out.
1614. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ii., 1. The whelp was hot and
eager.
1693. Congreve, 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, Relapse, iii., 5. Young men are hot, I know, but
they don’t boil over at that rate.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., iv., 123. 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 make it hot for one.
1830. Buckstone, 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 Mag., viii., 217. Finding all too hot to
hold him.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, 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 Mar., 373. The hottest suburb of London during
Jubilee year was supposed to be Ealing.
1890. 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 Mar., 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.