scorchio

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#1·12h ago

(British, Ireland, slang, jocular) scorching hot (originally and especially of weather).

Origin: scorch (as in scorcher, scorching) + pseudo-Romance suffix -io (see for example, Italian -io, Portuguese -io, Spanish -iego, or possibly Greek -ιος). 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". Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·12h ago

(British, Ireland, slang, jocular, by extension) Sizzling, exciting, cool; sexy, racy.

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