scalding hot, a.
Also 4 scladeng.
[f. scalding vbl. n. + hot a.]
Hot enough to scald.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 259 Þeryn he gadereth water and heteþ it in his rennynge scladeng [sic; Caxton skaldyng] hoot. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 17 Whan þe Mylke his skaldyng hote, caste þe stuf þer-to. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. 233 They [sc. springs at Bath] are in maner skalding hote. 1707 Mortimer Husb. 566 Put your first Wort into the Copper again, make it scalding hot. 1816 Scott Old Mort. xxxvi, Keep your ain breath to cool your ain porridge—ye'll find them scalding hot, I promise you. 1869 H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 302 A scalding-hot steam. |
| fig. 1562 Cooper Answ. Priv. Masse iii. 14 b, Your scaulding hotte and firebourning charitee. 1679 Alsop Melius Inq. Introd. 29 There's more danger of being lukewarm in Reforming than scalding-hot. |