red-hot poker

Noun

Meaning

widely cultivated hybrid poker plant

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

red hot poker

Synonyms

Kniphofia praecox branding iron curling iron burning iron red hot iron red hot iron needle hot poker iron is hot

Hypernyms

poker plant Kniphofia uvaria

Examples

The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind. A. E. Housman

Gritter thought it was about time the complacent louts at the top of the heap got to have a genuine red-hot poker up the ass. Justina Robson

Close letter words and terms

red-hot red-hot medium red-hot minute red-hots red-humped caterpillar red-inker