hot-doggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hot dog + -y.
Base: hot dog
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more hot-doggy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hot-doggy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hot doggy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hotdoggy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a hot dog.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The air around here is starting to get that slight hot-doggy, exhaust smell. Kind of like New York.
Chef-instructor Sarah Langan called the Hebrew National more “hot-doggy,” but in the final analysis went with McKenzie for its spices.
“Standard, hot-doggy, on the smaller side, but with a nice taste and not so salty as (the Hebrew National franks),” said Laura Hollman.
The whistle boomed, gulls chattered overhead, the sticky air was filled with a bilgey, hot-doggy smell, punctuated by the almost putrid sweetness of honey-roasted nuts.
Curing salts made from sodium nitrite preserve the meat and add that special hot-doggy flavor you may recall from your childhood.
The wieners are classic: light smoke, good hot-doggy flavor and wonderfully snappy natural casings, about $3.79 a pound.
The all-beef dog tastes more hot-doggy than our previous candidates.
Crescent Meats wieners: Pork and beef. Moist, hammy, with a medium-strength cured flavor — that briny-sharp hot-doggy “taste” — a hint of nutmeg or allspice and a mild white-pepper afterglow.
The smoky, hot-doggy flavor of those red brat medallions was pretty strong, and quickly took over the palate from the cheese and (rather flavorless) peppers.
The itty-bitty pigs in a blanket were salty, hot-doggy and everything I thought they would be. If you like hot dogs, you’ll like this crust.
gloss: With hot dogs.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Monday night they enjoyed dancing and Tuesday night they had a “hot-doggy” roast on the beach to which their friends were invited.
Miles of newsprint have been devoted to describing the atmosphere of Derby Day, but, in our little way, we have lots of atmosphere at our races, too, or so I thought when I spent an afternoon there recently; slightly hot-doggy, it’s true, but people must have food.
[…] / Toddlers getting pretty groggy, / Filled with lunches too hot-doggy; / […]
But if you’re tired of the standard greasy, cheesy, dippy, beefy, hot-doggy, doughy fare associated with football watching, let me lay a scrumptious alternative on you.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a show-off or daredevil.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Of waterskiing, if you can believe it, says retailer Jack Hanna of Nautique Water Ski & Sport Supply, “This is basically a hot-doggy sport. Everyone wants to look like a competitor.”
I refuse to overreact to several scouts and GMs who have reversed field on Curry because he has lost some of his burger-and-fries weight and exhibited none of the hot-doggy, too-cool attitude in NBA workouts that got him in trouble in some embarrassing high school losses, including the state final.
Four years ago, Lindsey Jacobellis fell in her big race because she was in a hot-doggy mood. It cost her a gold medal. Four years ago, Maelle Ricker fell in that same competition because you can fall in snowboardcross and you can get seriously hurt.
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