'Piping hot' definitions:

Definition of 'Piping hot'

From: GCIDE
  • Piping \Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[i^]ng), a. [From Pipe, v.]
  • 1. Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Emitting a high, shrill sound. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids. [1913 Webster]
  • Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller (Zool.), any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. Gymnorhina tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck.
  • Piping frog (Zool.), a small American tree frog ({Hyla Pickeringii}) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring.
  • Piping hot, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]