hot and bothered
2
8.4
- idiom
- NSFW
:
excitado
- Yep, you read that correctly; there are no actual sex scenes, but there are some mouthwatering flirtations that leave everyone all hot and bothered.
- get hot and bothered
Text him one day when you're feeling hot and bothered, text him and say I'm feeling so hot for you right now.
- Text him one day when you're feeling hot and bothered, text him and say I'm feeling so hot for you right now.
Examples
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Seeing her in that dress made him feel hot and bothered all over.
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The romantic atmosphere of the candlelit restaurant left them both hot and bothered.
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" As long as I don't start making you hot and bothered."
Fiction book (1990) -
Text him one day when you're feeling hot and bothered, text him and say I'm feeling so hot for you right now.
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Now who's the one that's all hot and bothered?
Fiction book (1999) -
But it's not Juliet, with her neck-high cleavage, that gets the boys all hot and bothered.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Hot and bothered" finally explained by academics is useful for making sense of how Idi Amin got rousted from Uganda in 1979.
Blog text (30) -
His flirtatious comments during the party had her feeling hot and bothered.
Synonyms
464
7.5
Feeling strong sexual desire or being sexually attractive
193
7.2
Feeling a strong desire for sex
35
7.9
Feeling sexual desire for someone
Antonyms
How Aroused
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35
7.9
- NSFW
2
8.4
- NSFW
5
3.2
485
2.0
20
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'hot' often has a sexual/attractive sense and 'bothered' signals agitation or discomfort, so a learner who knows both words could plausibly infer a sense of heightened arousal or flustered excitement. However, the specific erotic/sexual nuance of 'hot and bothered' is a partly idiomatic/metaphorical reading rather than a fully predictable compositional meaning, so it is not completely transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrase hot and bothered can also come from the image of someone feeling warm with desire, where hot means physically attracted and bothered means stirred or distracted by feeling. That's why it can mean 'sexually aroused'.