hot ache

English

Noun

hot ache (uncountable)

1. Pain felt in (chiefly) the hands, when they are warmed after having been very cold. [from 17th c.]
   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 131:

     The sensation of warmth at emerging from a cold-bath, and the pain called the hot-ach, after the hands have been immersed in snow, depend on the same principle […] .

   • 1917, D. H. Lawrence, Look! We have come Through!:

     Their scent is lacerating and repellent, it smells of burning snow, of hot-ache.

See also

• chilblain