Piping-hot Definition

adjective

(idiomatic) Very hot.

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

  • 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 by Geoffrey Chaucer:

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