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hot ass
noun
a tin kettle with a large bottom CANADA- If one wanted boiling water in a hurry for a cup of tea, one used what were called “quicks” or “hot asses,” made of tin. Water boiled very quickly in these kettles, which had large bottoms that fitted the hole of the stove when the lid was removed. — Florence Barbour, Memories of Life in the Labrador and on Newfoundland, p. 94, 1973
- People also call such a kettle a flat-arsed kettle. — Bill Casselman, Canadian Words, p. 72, 1995
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