flaming
see also: Flaming
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈfleɪmɪŋ/
Adjective

flaming

  1. On fire with visible flames.
    The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.
    • 2011, Stephanie Owen Reeder, Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea, page 76:
      On Christmas Day, the pudding was served piping hot, with flaming brandy on top.
  2. Very bright and the color of flame.
  3. (colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male.
    To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.
  4. (British, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
    I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!
  5. Very enthusiastic or passionate.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:
      Before he had brought it into the study that morning, he had read in the journal a flaming account of "Festivities at Gaunt House," with the names of all the distinguished personages invited by the Marquis of Steyne to meet his Royal Highness.
Translations Verb
  1. Present participle and gerund of flame
Noun

flaming (plural flamings)

  1. An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.
    • 1950, Market Growers Journal, volume 79, page 12:
      The burning is done before the crop has come up, and usually two flamings are necessary to kill all weeds […]
  2. Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.
  3. (internet slang) Vitriolic criticism.
    You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.

Flaming
Etymology

From the German - surname for someone from Flanders, from Middle High German vlaeminc, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz.

Proper noun
  1. Surname.



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