Piping hot

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Piping hot is an English language phrase, meaning very hot, usually referring to food.

[edit] Origin

Chaucer used the phrase in the Canterbury Tales in The Miller's Tale in 1390:

He sente hir pyment meeth and spiced ale
And wafres pipyng hoot out of the glede.

[He sent her sweetened wine and well-spiced ale
And waffles piping hot out of the fire]

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