Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US campus) angry [boil v. (3)].

1848		‘Ruff Sam’s Bear Fight’ Spirit of the Times 4 Mar. (N.Y.) 14: She [ a bear] manoovered an kum to the charge agin in a bilin’ swet, bitin’ an’ showin’ fite in dead airnest.
1874		J.H. Carter ‘Jim Cain’ in Log of Commodore Rollingpin 188: The rousters now were bilin’ / And for a fight were spilin’.
1881		Dundee Wkly News 3 Dec. 2/1: ‘He’s just a-boiling [...] and there’ll be [...] fault-finding all the evening now’.
1895		J. Greenwood Behind A Bus 8: ‘And you would be in a b’ilin’ heat’ (he was simmering, at all events) ‘if you was in my place.’.
1916		J. Lait ‘The Gangster’s Elegy’ Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 249: He’s boilin’, an’ that Greek is got a nasty disposition when he’s that way.
1916		P. Kyne Cappy Ricks 114: Cappy’s retort made him boiling mad.
1927		C. Coe Me – Gangster 149: It made me boiling mad.
1936		R.F. Adams Cowboy Lingo 226: He’s bilin’ mad.
1940		R.L. Bellem ‘Death’s Passport’ in Goodstone Pulps (1970) 115/1: He was boiling because I’d bopped him.
1953		W.P. McGivern Big Heat 104: Lagana was boiling about something.
1954		M. Rubin ‘Gold Ring’ in Margulies Back Alley Jungle (1963) 101: The judge was boiling and screamed this menace would never harm children again.
1958		Chronicle-Telegram (Elyria, OH) 13 Dec. 4/3: They hung a mid-termer on me. I could have done it on my head, except I was boiling over the score.
1967		P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 3: My thoughts were boiling. Poppa ain’t ever gonna hit me again.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS.
1982		H. Beaton Outside In I i: Cowface was boilin’, boy.

2. (US) drunk [boiled adj. (1)].

1901

E. Field Complete Trib. Primer 103: He can Tell more Smutty Stories than a Politician, and he can get Bilin’ slower on More Liquor than any Government official.

3. as an intensive.

1894		C.H. Hoyt A Milk White Flag Act I: A man in this country who doesn’t belong to the militia is a bilin’ idiot.
1919		Bystander (London) 17 Dec. 3/2: ‘Wot else is there ter do fer the likes o’ me except ter drown me (boiling) sorrers in a gallon or so?’.
1970		B. Naughton Alfie Darling 185: I’d this Abby on my mind, see. Not that she’s a boiling piece. But she’s got this extra thing.