flaming
see also: Flaming
Pronunciation
Flaming
Etymology
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see also: Flaming
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfleɪmɪŋ/
flaming
- 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.
- Very bright and the color of flame.
- (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.
- (British, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
- I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!
- 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
- Present participle and gerund of flame
flaming (plural flamings)
- 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 […]
- Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.
- (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.
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