blazing, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blazing adj.

1. (orig. US) a general intensifier; esp. in a blazing row, a vicious argument.

1851		Melville Moby Dick (1907) 113: And I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it.
1876		Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 60: We had a blazing row.
1882		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 6 May 3/1: That blazing idiot, [George] Bronson-Howard.
1906		E. Dyson Fact’ry ’Ands 22: ‘Flamin’, blazin’ liars!’ cried Annie.
1918		C.J. Dennis ‘Cow’ in Backblock Ballads 39: Why, the blazin’, wasteful crim’nal goes an’ kills a poddy calf!
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? Takes a gallon to drown a workin’ man’s (blazing) sorrer’.
1930–1		J.T. Farrell ‘Spring Evening’ in Short Stories (1937 US ed. only) 143: They had gotten along real nice, and she seemed to be one blazing party and he was beginning to think that he was going to get something pretty nice.
1936		N. Marsh Death in Ecstasy 300: How the blazing hell do you know?
1977		S. Kernochan Dry Hustle 268: If she gives me any more clothes and jewellry I’m gonna look like a blazin faggot boutique.
1999		Indep. Rev. 31 Aug. 13: She reputedly had a ‘blazing row’ with Rosie Boycott.
2000		Indep. Rev. 17 Feb. 11: They’d had a blazing row.

2. angry.

1933

M. Edgar ‘The Lion and Albert’ 🎵 At that Mother got proper blazing, [...] What, waste all our lives raising children / To feed ruddy Lions? Not me!

3. (US) first-rate, excellent.

1981		Hartwell & Bentley Open to Lang. 60: All you gotta do is snuggle up the blazin’ new April issue of 16 Magazine.
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Slammin. Blazin. Buggin.
2003		Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 1: blazin’ – cool, awesome: That’s jacket’s blazin’.

4. (US black/teen) of a female, extremely attractive.

1993		N.Y. Times 13 Apr. B6: Six blazing girls with six dope bodies [HDAS].
1997–2001		Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 blazing adj 1. extremely attractive. (‘That girl is blazing.’).
2002		Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 [...] 2. Very attractive. More than ‘hot.’ ‘Did you see her? man she was BLAZIN!’.