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Definition of Hot-blooded
1. Adjective. Prone to emotion. "Hot-blooded Latin-Americans"
Definition of Hot-blooded
1. Adjective. Easily angered or excited; lustful; passionate; excitable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Hot-blooded
1. Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hot-blooded
Literary usage of Hot-blooded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"A novel of the hot-blooded sons and daughters of the South, full of fire and
passion of their romantic region. ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... hot-blooded, employ a secretary or (most exasperating of all) use a type-writer,
refusing autographs to all but the most cunning applicants. ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"This suggests at once the very picture of a young and hot-blooded man, whose
brain had been distracted, during his residence in Italy, with that country's ..."
4. Joseph Pennell's Pictures in the Land of Templesby Joseph Pennell by Joseph Pennell (1915)
"... the city walls a mile across, and the whole space between is brushwood and
stones. Yet from this city sailed to Cos opposite the hot-blooded youth whom ..."
5. The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Fifth: Adventures of Two Youths in by Thomas Wallace Knox (1884)
"... how to act whenever they sco us Buffering from the hot.blooded visitor.
We will have more talk on this subject when we approach Central Africa. ..."
6. A Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop by Robert Charles Winthrop (1897)
"They are a hot-blooded race, and their property is at stake. I wonder how we
should feel if our property was at stake, here in New England. ..."
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