adv. phr. (colloquial).—Very hot.

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  1383.  CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales, ‘Miller’s Tale,’ 193. Wafres PIPYNG HOOT, out of the glede.

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  1530.  PALSGRAVE, Langue Francoyse, s.v.

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  c. 1600.  London Cries, 12 [HALLIWELL].

        PIPING HOT! smoking hot!
What have I got?
You have not:
Hot grey pease, hot! hot! hot!

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  1618.  P. MAINWARING, Letter [E. LODGE, Illustrations of British History, iii. 403]. Foure huge brawnie piggs, PIPEING HOTT, hiked and harnised with ropes of sausages.

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  1678.  COTTON, Scarronides, or Virgil Travestie [Works (1725), 103].

        Yet having now fall’n to his Lot,
A good rich Farm lies PIPING HOT.

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  1693.  CONGREVE, The Old Bachelor [Old Dramatists (1880), 163], iv. 8. She thanked me, and gave nie two apples, PIPING HOT out of her under-petticoat-pocket.

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  1759.  GOLDSMITH, The Citizen of the World, lxv. A nice pretty bit of ox-cheek, PIPING-HOT, and dressed with a little of my own sauce.

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  1821.  P. EGAN, Life in London, II. iii. In rushed Chaffing Peter … the oracle of the dustmen, PIPING HOT from the Old Bailey, with an account of one Lummy.

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