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Definition of Hottish
1. Adjective. Somewhat hot.
Definition of Hottish
1. Adjective. somewhat hot, not quite hot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hottish
1. somewhat hot [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hottish
Literary usage of Hottish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1863)
"He has bad cough ; is sick and feverish ; bowels confined ; hands hottish.
He is a robust-looking child, with a good colour. Ordered a citrate of potass and ..."
2. Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders by Charles Handfield Jones (1868)
"Skin hottish with perspiration on face. Does not sleep well at night, rambles
and talks. He varies much ; one week he is all life and spirits, the next much ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"An emphatic, hottish, really forcible person, but unhappily without divine
idea.— CARLYLE, THOMAS, 1832, Journal, Jan. 13; Thomas Carlyle, A History of the ..."
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