"burny" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: burn + -y Etymology templates: {{af|en|burn|-y}} burn + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|?}} burny
  1. (colloquial) Tending to burn. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-burny-en-adj-xrtsZVN8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 100 0
  2. (colloquial) Very hot. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-burny-en-adj-iRJh1mq7

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          "ref": "1972, \"Italian patient\", quoted in Eliot Freidson, Medical Men and Their Work (Walter De Gruyter Incorporated)",
          "text": "My eyes seem very burny, especially the right eye."
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          "ref": "2015, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin",
          "text": "I suppose I must have read them at some point, but mostly I came into contact with them by means of burnier-than-thou dialogues with old-timers—or anxious, status-conscious noobs—who wanted to point out all the ways in which my burn was the wrong sort of burn.",
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          "ref": "2020, Douglas Kruger, Poverty Proof for Entrepreneurs: 50 ways to dodge the pitfalls and build wealth, Penguin Random House South Africa",
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        },
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