blazing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbleɪzɪŋ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ

Verb

blazing

1. present participle and gerund of blaze

Adjective

blazing (not comparable)

1. (informal) Very fast.
2. (slang, of a person) Sexually attractive.
   • 2023, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, page 16:

     There were enough blazing babes in the place to give a monk a hard-on on sight.

3. Of tremendous intensity, heat (thermal energy) or fervor; white-hot.
   • 1859, Punch, Or, The London Charivari, Volumes 36-37‎^[1], Published for the Proprietors, at the Office, 13, page 236:

     Blazing scarlet is the best; rifle-green the next best.

4. (informal) Exceedingly angry.

   The divorced couple had a blazing row.

   She twirled around, her eyes blazing.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 31, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 142:

     Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it.

Derived terms

• blazingly
• blazingstar
• unblazing

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: ярък (bg) (jarǎk)
• Esperanto: flamanta
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: αἴθων (aíthōn)

• Hindi: ज्वलंत (hi) (jvalant)
• Polish: palący, piekący, prażący
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} llameante (es), flamígero (es)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: قیزغین (kızgın), سوزان (suzan) (of tremendous heat)

See also

• trailblazing

Noun

blazing (plural blazings)

1. The act of something that blazes or burns.

   the blazings of many fires