1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger's Sweetheart, p. 134. He came . . . as happy-looking, and lively as if no such hing as hot coppers existed.
Hotel (also Cupid's Hotel and
Cupid's Arms).—subs, (venery).—The
female pudendum. Cf.,
Cock Inn. For synonyms, see
Monosyllable.
Hotel Barbering, subs. (common).—Bilking.
1892. Daily Chronicle, 28 Mar., p. 5. c. 7. The inference is now fairly admissable that he may possibly have divided his time between polygamous pursuits and hotel barbering exploits.
Hotel Warming-pan, subs. phr.
(common).—A chambermaid.
Also warming-pan (q.v.). Fr.,
une limogère.
Hot-flannel (or Flannel), subs.
(old).—Gin and beer, with nutmeg,
sugar, etc., made hot.
1789. Geo. Parker, Life's Painter, p. 144. A mixed kind of liquor . . . when drank in a morning it is called flannel.
1858. A. Mayhew, Paved with Gold, bk. III., ch. iii., p. 269. A jug of what he termed hot flannel for three—a mixture of gin, beer, and eggs.
Hot-house, subs. (old).—A
brothel. Also (see quot. 1616),
a public bath. For synonyms, see
Nanny-shop.
1596. Nashe, Have with You to Saffron Walden (Grosart, iii., 106). Any hot-house or bawdy-house of them all.
1599. Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, iv., 4. Let a man sweat once a week in a hot-house, and be well rubbed and froted with a plump juicy wench and clean linen.
1603. Shakspeare, Measure for Measure, ii., 1. Now she professes a hothouse, which is a very ill house too.
1606. The Return from Parnassus, i., 2 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, ix., 115). He cannot swagger it well in a tavern, nor domineer in a hot-house.
1616. Jonson, Epigrams, 'On the New Hot-house.' Where lately harboured many a famous whore, A purging bill now fixed upon the door Tells you it is a hot-house: So it may, And still be a whore-house. They're synonyma.
1699. Garth, The Dispensary, ii., line 157. A hot-house he prefers to Julia's arms.
Hot Meat (or Beef or Mutton),
subs. phr. (venery).—See Bit.
Hot-member (or Hot 'un).—See
Warm Member.
Hot-Milk, subs. (venery).—The
semen. For synonyms, see
Cream.
Hot-place, subs. (colloquial).—Hell.
For synonyms, see
Tropical Climate.
1891. F. H. Groome, Blackwood, Mar., p. 320. A letter from her son in Hull, told the curate that 'that did give me a tarn at fust, for I thought that come from the hot place.'
Hot-pot, subs. (old).—Ale and
brandy made hot.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1788. G. C. Stevens, Adv. of a Speculist, ii.. 56. A watchman and an old Blind Woman, troubled with the palsy, drinking hot-pot together.
Hot-potato. To drop like
a hot potato, verb. phr.
(common).—To abandon (a
pursuit, a person, a thing) with
alacrity.
Hot-pudding. To have a hot-pudding
for supper, verb.
phr. (venery).—To copulate.
Of women only. [Pudding
(Durfey) = the penis]. For
synonyms, see Greens and Ride.
