1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, ch. xvi. I started life in a training stable, and a hot life it was for a boy.
5. (venery).—Infected; venereally diseased.
6. (colloquial).—Alive; vehement; instant.
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. [[363]]
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.