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scorchio

scorchio adjective: scorching hot (originally and especially of weather).

Adjective

scorchio (not comparable)

  1. (Ireland, UK, humorous, slang) scorching hot (originally and especially of weather)
    • In "scorchio" heat, I trudge along the waterfront for a last visit with the crew.2002, Shirley Hewett, The People's Boat: HMCS Oriole : Ship of a Thousand Dreams, Heritage House, →ISBN, page 159
    • Pork and poultry (and this goes for geese and turkeys too): aim for the hotter side of warm, but not as far as scorchio.2011, Allegra McEvedy, Big Table, Busy Kitchen: 200 Recipes for Life, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 281
  2. (Ireland, UK, broadly, humorous, slang) Sizzling, exciting, cool; sexy, racy.
    • TV is very scorchio: a parade of go-go girls in bikinis mouthing songs as they prance around the studio.1999 November 21, Tobias Jones, “Insider's guide to... Milan”, in The Independent, London
    • If the Kerry footballers find themselves filling the time between league and championship next spring with a little less scorchio in their lives, they will only have themselves to blame.2015 June 15, Malachy Clerkin, “Kerry start slowly but have plenty to spare against wasteful Tipp”, in The Irish Times, Dublin

Origin of scorchio

scorch (as in scorcher, scorching) + pseudo-Romance suffix -io (see for example, Italian -io, Portuguese -io, Spanish -iego, or possibly Greek -ιος (-ios)). Coined for The Fast Show, a BBC comedy series, in the "Chanel 9 News" sketch: the TV news in a fictional Mediterranean country delivered in gibberish combining Romance and Greek-sounding words supposed to be the local language. The weather map was always very hot and sunny, described as "scorchio".

Questions about scorchio

What does scorchio mean?
Scorchio means scorching hot (originally and especially of weather).
What part of speech is scorchio?
Scorchio is an adjective.

Words near scorchio in the dictionary

  1. scorching hot
  2. scorching up
  3. scorchingly
  4. scorchingness
  5. scorchings
  6. scorchio
  7. scorchproof
  8. scorchy
  9. scordatura
  10. score
  11. score attack

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