scorchio
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 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."
- "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."
Etymology
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".