hotter
1 Americanverb (used without object)
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to vibrate up and down; shake, totter, or rattle, as a plate on a shelf.
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to stammer.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of hotter
1790–1800; < early Dutch dialect hotteren, frequentative with -er- of Middle Dutch hotten to shake; akin to hotch
Example Sentences
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The new word for even hotter weather comes after record-shattering heat hit Japan last year.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
“I’ll be out there cookin’ hotter than fish grease!”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Consumer prices were up 3.3% in March from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Friday, much hotter than February’s gain of 2.4%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
"The lighter a black hole is, the hotter it should be and the more particles it will emit," says Andrea Thamm, co-author of the new research and assistant professor of physics at UMass Amherst.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026
Each day, the sun grew hotter and more punishing, too hot for June, and the fence seemed to get longer and longer, like a living thing snaking out across the prairie.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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