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. Five Years’ Penal Servitude, ch. iv., p. 887. A young man who
... had been guilty of bigamy, and to such a degree that he got it
hot for such a crime—five years.
1892. Anstey, Model Music-Hall, 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.
Hot-arsed, adj. phr. (venery).—Excessively lewd. [Of women only.] Cf.,
Biter.
Hot-beef. To give hot-beef, verb. phr. (thieves’ rhyming).—To cry ‘Stop
thief.’ Also Beef (q.v.).
1879. J. W. Horsley, in Macm. Mag., xl., 506. He followed, giving
me hot beef (calling ‘Stop thief’).
Hot-cakes. To go off like hot cakes, verb. phr. (common).—To sell
readily; to be in good demand.
1889. Pall Mall Gaz., 11 Oct., p. 6, c. 1. Sold at one penny retail
they often go off like hot cakes.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, ch. xii. It went off like hot cakes.
Hot-foot, adv. (colloquial).—Instant in pursuit.
Hotch-potch, subs. (old: now recognised).—A medley; a hodge-podge
(q.v.).
1597. Hall, Satires, i., 3. A goodly hotch-potch when vile
russettings are matched with monarchs and mighty kings.
1606. Return from Parnassus, iv., 2. (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed.,
1875, ix., 183). This word, hotch-potch in English is a pudding;
for in such a pudding is commonly not one thing only, but one thing
with another.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hotch-potch, an Oglio, or Medly
of several Meats in one Dish.
c. 1709. W. King, Art of Cookery, ix. (Chalmers, English Poets,
1810, ix., 259). The first delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufry,
forced meats ... and salmagundy.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1728. Patrick Walker, Alexander Peden, ‘Postscript’ (ed. 1827, i.,
128). A hotch-potch or bagful of Arian, Arminian, Socinian,
Pelagian, etc.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 Oct., p. 2, c. 1. Both are a sort of
hotchpotch of songs, dances, and extravaganzas.
Hot-coppers, subs. (common).—The fever and parched throat, or mouth
(q.v.), attending a debauch. See Cool one’s Copper.
1830. Egan, Finish to Life in London, 156. The ‘uncommonly big
gentleman’ in spite of swallowing oceans of soda-water, declared
his copper to be so hot that he thought all the water in the sea
could not reduce his thirst!
1841. Punch, vol. I., p. 244. ‘Oh blow your physiology!’ says Rapp.
‘You mean to say you’ve got a hot copper—so have I. Send for the
precious balm and then fire away.’
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, ch. xliii. ‘Nothing like that beer,’ he
remarked, ‘when the coppers are hot.’
1864. Comic Almanack, p. 63. ‘Cold Cream Internally.’ Cold cream is
an excellent remedy for hot coppers.
1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger’s Sweetheart, p. 134. He came ... as
happy-looking, and lively as if no such thing as hot coppers
existed.
Hotel (also Cupid’s Hotel and Cupid’s Arms).—subs. (venery).—The female
pudendum. Cf., Cock Inn. For synonyms, see Monosyllable.
Hotel Barbering, subs. (common).—Bilking.
1892. Daily Chronicle, 28 Mar., p. 5, c. 7. The inference is now
fairly admissable that he may possibly have divided his time
between polygamous pursuits and hotel barbering exploits.
Hotel Warming-pan, subs. phr. (common).—A chambermaid. Also warming-pan
(q.v.). Fr., une limogère.
Hot-flannel (or Flannel), subs. (old).—Gin and beer, with nutmeg,
sugar, etc., made hot.
1789. Geo. Parker, Life’s Painter, p. 144. A mixed kind of liquor
... when drank in a morning it is called flannel.
1858. A. Mayhew, Paved with Gold, bk. III., ch. iii., p. 269. A jug
of what he termed hot flannel for three—a mixture of gin, beer, and
eggs.
Hot-house, subs. (old).—A brothel. Also (see quot. 1616), a public
bath. For synonyms, see Nanny-shop.
1596. Nashe, Have with You to Saffron Walden (Grosart, iii., 106).
Any hot-house or bawdy-house of them all.
1599. Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, iv., 4. Let a man sweat
once a week in a hot-house, and be well rubbed and froted with a
plump juicy wench and clean linen.
1603. Shakspeare, Measure for Measure, ii., 1. Now she professes a
hot-house, which is a very ill house too.
1606. The Return from Parnassus, i., 2 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th
ed., 1875, ix., 115). He cannot swagger it well in a tavern, nor
domineer in a hot-house.
1616. Jonson, Epigrams, ‘On the New Hot-house.’ Where lately
harboured many a famous whore, A purging bill now fixed upon the
door Tells you it is a hot-house: So it may, And still be a
whore-house. They’re synonyma.
1699. Garth, The Dispensary, ii., line 157. A hot-house he prefers
to Julia’s arms.
Hot Meat (or Beef or Mutton), subs. phr. (venery).—See Bit.
Hot-member (or Hot ’un).—See Warm Member.
Hot-Milk, subs. (venery).—The semen. For synonyms, see Cream.
Hot-place, subs. (colloquial).—Hell. For synonyms, see Tropical
Climate.
1891. F. H. Groome, Blackwood, Mar., p. 320. A letter from her son
in Hull, told the curate that ‘that did give me a tarn at fust, for
I thought that come from the hot place.’
Hot-pot, subs. (old).—Ale and brandy made hot.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1788. G. C. Stevens, Adv. of a Speculist, ii., 56. A watchman and
an old Blind Woman, troubled with the palsy, drinking hot-pot
together.
Hot-potato. To drop like a hot potato, verb. phr. (common).—To abandon
(a pursuit, a person, a thing) with alacrity.
Hot-pudding. To have a hot-pudding for supper, verb. phr. (venery).—To
copulate. Of women only. [Pudding (Durfey) = the penis]. For synonyms,
see Greens and Ride.
Hot-stomach. So hot a stomach as to burn the clothes off his back, phr.
(old).—Said of one who pawns his clothes for drink.—Lex. Bal.
Hottentot, subs. (East-end). See quot.
1880. G. R. Sims, How the Poor Live, ch. x. The cry of Hottentots
went round. ‘Hottentots’ is the playful way in this district of
designating a stranger, that is to say, a stranger come from the
West.