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flaming ppl adjective & adverb. LME.
[from FLAME verb + -ING2.]
A. adjective.
That flames; in flames, on fire. LME.
Day Lewis Like flaming swords they barred my way.
b. Burning hot, fiery. M17.
D. Francis Flaming June had come and gone: it was raining again.
Glowing, brilliant; (with ref. to colour) bright, vivid. LME.
M. E. Braddon The flaming poppies among the ripening corn.
b. fig. Highly coloured; exaggerated; overlaudatory; (of an argument etc.) passionate. E17.
Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida He having colour enough, and the other higher, is too flaming a praise for a good complexion.
Blasted, damned, bloody. colloq. L19.
Alan Bennett That flaming dog has messed on our steps again.
b. adverb. Damn, bloody. colloq. M20.
M. Kington Then flaming well think of something better.
flamingly adverb E17.