Meaning

adjective keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement; - Bram Stoker

adjective lighted up by or as by fire or flame

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Middle English a- English a- Old French flamberbor. Middle English flawmen English flame English aflame From a- (intensifying prefix) + flame (verb). Flame is derived from Middle English flamen, flaumben, flaumen, flawmen (“to emit flames, blaze; to…

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