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Dictionary: white-hot   (hwīt'hŏt', wīt'-)
adj.
  1. So hot as to glow with a bright white light.
  2. Zealous; fervid.

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: intensely zealous or fervid

Meaning #2: glowing white with heat
  Synonym: white


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For information on materials glowing white due to temperature, see Incandescence.

The white hot is a variation on the hot dog eaten mostly in the Rochester, New York area. It is composed of some combination of uncured and unsmoked pork, beef, and veal; the lack of smoking or curing allows the meat to retain a naturally white color. White hots usually contain mustard and other spices, and often include a dairy component such as nonfat dry milk.

The white hot originated in the 1920s as a poor man's hot dog made of the less desirable meat parts and various fillers; in contrast, the modern versions are made from quality meats and generally are sold at higher prices than common hot dogs.

The best-known producer of the white hot is Zweigle's. Even though they were not the first to make the dog, they were "the first ones at the stadium" (according to Robert Berl, the first maker of the Zweigle brand white hot). Soon after Berl began making the dogs in 1925, he secured a contract at the Red Wing Stadium.

Even though it remains a Rochester, New York specialty, Zweigle's ships its white hots all over the world. It has become the official hot dog of the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, Rochester Amerks and Rochester Rhinos and was the official hot dog of the Washington Nationals during the major league baseball team's first season.

There is an unrelated white German sausage, traditional in Bavaria and popular in the mid-western United States, known as weisswurst, which is made primarily from veal.

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Hot dog variations

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Translations: White-hot
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - hvidglødende

Nederlands (Dutch)
witheet

Français (French)
adj. - chauffé à blanc, incandescent, (fig) incandescent

Deutsch (German)
adj. - weißglühend

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - λευκοπυρωμένος

Italiano (Italian)
incandescente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - aquecido, inflamado

Русский (Russian)
раскаленный добела, разъяренный, доведенный до белого каления

Español (Spanish)
adj. - de color blanco, calentado al blanco, candente

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - vitglödgad

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
白热的, 狂热的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 白熱的, 狂熱的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 백열의, 열렬한, 지명수배 중인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 白熱の, 熱烈な, 白熱した

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) شديد الاتقاد, متحمس, عنيف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מלובן, לוהט, נלהב, רותח‬


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