hotten
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- Rhymes: -ɒtən
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hotten (third-person singular simple present hottens, present participle hottening, simple past and past participle hottened)
- (transitive, nonstandard) To make hot
- 2009, Orson Scott Card, Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker, page 22:
- Jackson nodded gravely. He looked so vain and upright and godly that Hooch couldn't resist it, he hottened up the chair under Jackson just a little, just enough that Jackson had to wiggle his butt.