scorchio

Meaning

Adjective

scorching hot (originally and especially of weather)
Sizzling, exciting, cool; sexy, racy.

Origin

scorch (as in scorcher, scorching) + pseudo-Romance suffix -io. 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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