hot

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   marked by excited activity

   a hot week on the stock market

2. 2
   adj

   charged or energized with electricity

   a hot wire

3. 3
   adj

   having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity

   hot fuel rods

4. 4
   adj

   having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm

   hot for travel

5. 5
   adj

   newly made

   a hot scent

6. 6
   adj

   recently stolen or smuggled

   hot merchandise

7. 7
   adj

   having or bringing unusually good luck

   hot at craps

8. 8
   adj

   newest or most recent

   news hot off the press

Etymology

From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt (“hot”), from Proto-West Germanic *hait, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Swedish het (“hot”), Icelandic heitur (“hot”). Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).