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Scorcher   Listen
noun
scorcher  n.  A very hot day. (Informal)






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"Scorcher" Quotes from Famous Books



... so unvarying in this salutation to the morn that his designation of disagreeable weather as "Ole Boo" became generally adopted by us. When the hot weather came on, Dawson's remark, upon rising and seeing excellent prospects for a scorcher, changed to: "Well, Ole Sol, the Haymaker, is going to git in his work on us ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... Bert faintly, and then recalled the great Butteridge love story. Had the old chap also read the letters? He must think him a scorcher if he had. "Oh! that's aw-right," he said, "about 'er. I 'adn't any ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... it a scorcher?" muttered the young woman as she mounted the kitchen stairs in answer to some visitor's second tug at the bell. She walked across the hall that led to ...
— The Music Master - Novelized from the Play • Charles Klein



Words linked to "Scorcher" :   screamer, striking, hitting



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