Hotten

name, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make hot nonstandard, transitive

    "Jackson nodded gravely. He looked so vain and upright and godly that Hooch couldn't resist it, he hottened up the chair under Jackson just a little, just enough that Jackson had to wiggle his butt."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

More examples

"Jackson nodded gravely. He looked so vain and upright and godly that Hooch couldn't resist it, he hottened up the chair under Jackson just a little, just enough that Jackson had to wiggle his butt."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hot + -en.

Etymology 2

Variant of Hutton.

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