hotter

¹

[hot-er]

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.

hotter

²

[hot-er]

adjective

1. comparative of hot.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hotter¹

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

Example Sentences

But, of course, here it is much hotter.

From BBC

And the complication is that when the system stops working, it can make the drivers hotter than they would otherwise have been.

From BBC

Decades of homebuilding in forests and foothills have left millions of residents exposed as climate change fuels longer, hotter and drier fire seasons.

From Los Angeles Times

Experts warn that hotter temperatures are making the land drier and more prone to ignition.

From BBC

Replicating it on Earth involves heating atoms to temperatures many times hotter than the sun.

From BBC

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