hotter

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[ hot-er ]
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verb (used without object)Scot. and North England.
  1. to vibrate up and down; shake, totter, or rattle, as a plate on a shelf.

  2. to stammer.

Origin of hotter

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1790–1800; <early Dutch dialect hotteren, frequentative with -er- of Middle Dutch hotten to shake; akin to hotch

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hotter2
[ hot-er ]

adjective
  1. comparative of hot.

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How to use hotter in a sentence

  • The Congregationalists had no hotter adherents than they, nor none who entered the conflict with more bitterness of spirit.

    Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington Kelland
  • Sebastian's warnings—twanging the same old string—only made his rage the hotter.

    God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
  • Susannah, goaded into direct speech by what seemed to her his wilful slowness, answered with the blood still hotter in her cheeks.

    The Rake's Progress | Marjorie Bowen
  • As time wore on and the enemy fire grew hotter, a Roman Catholic chaplain reached the side of the sergeant.

    Private Peat | Harold R. Peat
  • This warning probably filled the Throne with even more and hotter indignation than that which seethed in the Foreign Devils.