hot ache

noun

Pain felt in (chiefly) the hands, when they are warmed after having been very cold.

First used 17th c.
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Meanings

nounhot ache (uncountable)
  1. uncountablePain felt in (chiefly) the hands, when they are warmed after having been very cold.First known use 17th c.

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

    1917, D. H. Lawrence, Look! We have come Through!
    1 more example

    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 […].

    1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 131
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