scorchio

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    scorching hot (originally and especially of weather)

    爱尔兰 幽默 俚语

    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.

  2. 2.

    Sizzling, exciting, cool; sexy, racy.

    爱尔兰 幽默 俚语 引申义

    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.

词源

* scorch (as in scorcher, scorching) + pseudo-Romance suffix -io (see for example, Italian -io, Portuguese -io, Spanish -iego). 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 a Romance-sounding gibberish supposed to be the local language. The weather map was always very hot and sunny, described as "scorchio".

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