Boiling
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɪlɪŋ
Verb
boiling- Present participle of boil
Noun
boiling
(plural boilings)Full definition of boiling
Adjective
boiling
- That boils or boil.boiling kettleboiling' oil
- (of a thing, informal, hyperbole) Extremely hot or active.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 10, With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was … in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
- The radiator is boiling – I'm going to turn it down a bit.
- (of a person, informal, hyperbole) Feeling uncomfortably hot.I'm boiling – can't we open a window?
- (of the weather, hyperbole) Very hot.It's boiling out today!