• IPA: /ˈfleɪmɪŋ/

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.

• French: enflammé, flambant
• Italian: infiammato
• Portuguese: flamejante
• Spanish: llameante

1. Present participle and gerund of flame

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.

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

1. Surname.