hottish

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1. Somewhat hot.

   "There certainly is a sort of hottish smell somewhere, sir," he admitted. "It isn't any woodwork about the fireplace scorching? We blind are so helpless."

   1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC