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(British, Ireland, slang, humorous) scorching hot (originally and especially of weather).
The climate of the British Isles will be probably the mildest in Europe, and therefore the most desirable, but in the south temperatures, especially in cities, will be scorchio, to use the technical term
It was a scorchio weekend and yesterday we saw the warmest day of the year so far, 29.7C recorded in Bournemouth, closer to home, 29.5C at Heathrow.
In "scorchio" heat, I trudge along the waterfront for a last visit with the crew.
Pork and poultry (and this goes for geese and turkeys too): aim for the hotter side of warm, but not as far as scorchio.
The Mambista crew are hosting hip upbeat jazzsters, Alice in Grooveland, who will be dreaming up a set of originals from their debut album ‘Skyline,’ alongside a scorchio mix of jazz, funk and Latin tunes with latex-tight grooves, catchy riffs and punchy solos.
TV is very scorchio: a parade of go-go girls in bikinis mouthing songs as they prance around the studio.
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.
Use scorchio when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scorchio means (British, Ireland, slang, humorous) scorching hot (originally and especially of weather).
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The climate of the British Isles will be probably the mildest in Europe, and therefore the most desirable, but in the south temperatures, especially in cities, will be scorchio, to use the technical term
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