Hot vs Itch - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between hot and itch

is that hot is a whit, a bit while itch is a sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.

As a verb itch is

to feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.

hot

English

Alternative forms

* (physically attractive) hawt (slang, especially Internet''), hott (''slang, especially Internet )

Adjective

(hotter)

Of an object, having a high temperature.

*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.

Of the weather, causing the air to be hot.

Of a person or animal, feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

Feverish.

Of food, spicy.

(lb) Very good, remarkable, exciting.

Stolen.

(lb) Electrically charged

(lb) Radioactive.

(lb) Of a person, very physically or sexually attractive.

Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.

Popular; in demand.

Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.

Performing strongly; having repeated successes.

*1938 , Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:

*:"Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.

*2002 , Peter Krause & Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, p.55:

*:The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.

Fresh; just released.

*1960 , Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:

*:A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot .

*2000 , David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, p.34:

*:Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot .

Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "hot")

Synonyms

* (having a high temperature) heated; see also * (of the weather) baking, boiling, boiling hot, sultry, sweltering * (feeling the sensation of heat) baking, boiling, boiling hot * (feverish) feverish, having a temperature * (spicy) piquant, spicy, tangy * stolen * (electrically charged) live * (radioactive) radioactive * attractive, beautiful, cute, fit, foxy, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, lush, pretty, sexy, studly, tasty, yummy

Antonyms

* (having a high temperature) chilled, chilly, cold, cold as ice, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, glacial, ice-cold, icy * (of the weather) cold, freezing, freezing cold, icy * (feeling the sensation of heat) freezing, freezing cold * (spicy) bland, mild * (electrically charged) neutral, dead * (slang) lifeless

Derived terms

* a bit hot * as hot as hell, hot as hell * boiling hot * blow hot and cold * catch it hot, get it hot * give it to someone hot * give it to someone hot and strong * go hot and cold * go like hot cakes, sell like hot cakes * have the hots for * hot air * hot and bothered * hot-and-hot * hot bed * hot beef * hot blast * hot-blooded * hot bottle * hot box * hot-brain * hot-brained * hot bulb * hot button * hot cathode * hot chair * hot check * hot chisel * hot-closet * hot cockles * hot coppers * hot cross bun * hot cupboard * hot damn * hot date * hot diggety, hot diggety dog * hot-dip * hot-dipped * hot dipping * hot dog * hot favorite, hot favourite * hot flash, hot flush * hot-flue * hotfoot * hot from the press, hot off the press * hot gospeler, hot gospeller * hot gospeling, hot gospelling * hot hatch * hot-hatch * hothead * hotheaded * hot-hoof * hot-house, hothouse * hot-iron test * hot-key * hot laboratory * hot line, hotline * hotly * hot-making * hot melt, hot-melt adhesive, hot-melt glue * hot metal * hot money * hotness * hot on * hot on someone's heels * hot-panted, hot-pantsed * hot pants * hot pint * hotplate * hotpot * hot potato * hot-press * hot-presser * hot property * hot rod, hotrod * hot-rodder, hotrodder * hot-saw * hot seat * hot set * hot shift * hot shoe * hot-short * hotshot * hot-skull * hot-spirited * hot spot * hot spring * hotspur * hot squat * hot-stopping * hot-stove * hot stuff * hot-swap * hot tap * hot tear * hot tearing * hot-tempered * hotter * hottie * hotting * hottish * hot to trot * hot-trod * hot tub * hot tube * hot under the collar * hot up * hot wall * hot war * hot water * hot wave * hot well * hot wind * hot-wire * hot-wired * hot with * hot-work * hot-working * in hot pursuit * like a cat on hot bricks * make it hot for, make things hot for * run hot * smoking hot * too hot for * too hot to hold

Verb

To heat; to make or become hot.

To become lively or exciting.

Synonyms

* hot up; heat, heat up

Statistics

Anagrams

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itch

English

(wikipedia itch)

Alternative forms

* (noun) (l), (l), (l) (in Scotland)

Noun

(es)

A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.

A desire or want.

Derived terms

* barber's itch * itchy * jock itch * seven-year itch

Verb

(es)

To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.

Capulet: ... Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; / My fingers itch . Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much, / And that we have a curse in having her: / Out on her, hilding!

To want or desire.

He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.

To cause to feel an itch.

(colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

* 2002 , M D Huddleston, Missing Paige :

"What makes you suspect him?" Max asked as he itched his neck.

* 2002 January 4, "Cyd" (username), Itching'', in alt.support.mult-sclerosis, ''Usenet :

I have to take both shoes and socks off! If I go bare foot I'm ok! I also get itching on my r/palm of my hand. I itch it so much that it's raw!

* 2003 November 21, "Jim Patterson" (username), Behavior Therapy for Itchy Clothes?'', in alt.support.ocd, ''Usenet :

Basically I go through a half hour of trying to figure out of it is an fake OCD itch or a regular itch before I itch it (if I determine it's a "fake" itch, then I try not to itch it).

* 2003 , Ray Emerson, The Riddle of Cthulhu :

Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car.

* 2004 , Philip Smucker, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail :

But when we asked more about the famous man whose specter still commanded the heights, the guard just sneered at me, pointed his gun back toward the road with one hand, and itched his chin with the other.

Derived terms

* make one's teeth itch

Anagrams

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