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hot pants (n.)[hot pants 词源字典]: "short-shorts," 1970, from hot (adj.) + pants (n.). Probably influenced by earlier sense of "sexual arousal" (1927).[hot pants etymology, hot pants origin, 英语词源]
hot spot (n.): also hotspot, 1888 as a skin irritation; 1931 as "nightclub;" 1938 in the firefighting sense; 1941 as "place of international conflict." See hot (adj.) + spot (n.).
hot water (n.): c. 1400, literal; 1530s in figurative sense of "trouble."
hot-blooded (adj.): "passionate," 1590s; a relic of medieval physiology theory.
hot-foot: c. 1300 (adv.) "hastily," from hot + foot (n.). As a verb, from 1896. As the name of a prank played with matches, by 1934.
hot-rod (n.): also hot rod, 1945, American English, from hot + rod, apparently in a sense of "hunk of metal" (the cars also were called hot iron).
hotbed (n.): 1620s, from hot + bed (n.); originally "bed of earth heated by fermenting manure for forcing growing plants;" generalized sense of "place that fosters rapid growth" is from 1768.
Hotchkiss: 1878, type of gun named for its inventor, Benjamin B. Hotchkiss (1826-1885). In Japanese, the word for "stapler" is hotchikisu after the E. H. Hotchkiss Company of Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S., early and prominent manufacturer of staplers (incorporated 1895, name from 1897), which apparently was run by relatives of the gun inventor. The surname (attested from late 15c. as Hochekys) is a variant of Hodgkin.
hotel (n.): 1640s, "public official residence," from French hôtel, Old French hostel "a lodging" (11c.), from Medieval Latin hospitale "inn" (see hostel). Modern sense of "an inn of the better sort" is first recorded 1765.
hotelier (n.): 1905, from French hôtelier "hotelkeeper," Old French hostelier, from hostel (see hostel).
hothead (n.): "short-tempered person," 1650s, from hot in the figurative sense + head (n.); Johnson's dictionary also lists hotmouthed "headstrong, ungovernable;" Elizabethan English had hot-brain "hothead" (c. 1600); and Old English had hatheort "anger, rage," literally "hot heart."
hothouse (n.): mid-15c., "bath house," from hot + house (n.). In 17c. a euphemism for "brothel" (similar to massage parlor); the meaning "glass-roofed structure for raising plants" is from 1749. Figurative use by 1802.
hotly (adv.): 1520s, from hot + -ly (2). Compare Old English hatlice "ardently."
hotshot (n.): "important person," 1933; see hot + shot (n.). It earlier meant "fast train" (1925), and "reckless person" (c. 1600).
Hottentot: 1670s, from S.African Dutch, said to mean "stammerer," it is from hot en tot "hot and tot," nonsense words imitative of the clicking, jerking Khoisan speech.
hottie (n.): also hotty, "attractive person," teen slang by 1995, from hot + -ie. The same word was used from 1947 with sense "hot water bottle."
Houdini (n.): "escape artist or other ingenious person," 1923, from Harry Houdini, professional name of U.S. escapist Erich Weiss (1874-1926).
hound (n.): Old English hund "dog," from Proto-Germanic *hundas (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian hund, Old High German hunt, German Hund, Old Norse hundr, Gothic hunds), from PIE *kuntos, dental enlargement of root *kwon- "dog" (see canine). Meaning narrowed 12c. to "dog used for hunting."
hound (v.): "hunt with hounds," 1520s, from hound (v.). Sense of "pursue relentlessly" is first recorded c. 1600. Related: Hounded; hounding.
houndstooth: also hound's tooth, as a design pattern, 1936, so called for resemblance.