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scorcher|ˈskɔːtʃə(r)|
[f. scorch v.1 + -er2.]
One who or something which scorches.
1. colloq. A very hot day.
1874M. C. Explorers 25 One regular scorcher we camped before noon. 1899F. V. Kirby Sport E.C. Africa xxiii. 259 A heavy mist..gave promise of a hot day, and it turned out a ‘scorcher’.
2. colloq. One who cycles or motors furiously.
1885Pennell Canterb. Pilgr. Pref., Nor does it seem to us worth while..to record our time, since we were pilgrims, and not scorchers. 1901Daily Tel. 7 Jan. 8/3 (Farmer), As a result of complaints as to the excessive speed at which motor-cars are driven..the police have been keeping a sharp look-out for scorchers.
3. slang.
a. Something scorching or stinging; a scathing rebuke or attack.
1842R. W. Griswold Let. 7 Sept. (1898) 120 The review in The Examiner..is a ‘scorcher’. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad 453 Every time they read me a scorcher of a lecture I mean to talk back in print. 1888Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Jan. 1/1 We have no doubt that his ‘letter, in the strongest Saxon I could command’, about the Intelligence Department was, as the schoolboys would say, ‘a regular scorcher.’
b. One who causes a ‘sensation’; spec. a very attractive girl or woman, a ‘smasher’.
1881Punch 29 Oct. 204/2 She was ‘a Scorcher’, was Lady O. 1898[see hot a. 6 c]. 1899Doyle Duet (1909) 44 A perfec' pair of scorchers. 1935Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins ix. 88 When I'd had a look at the young lady next door and seen what a scorcher she is.
c. In Sport, an extremely fast shot or hit.
1900Dialect Notes II. 57 Scorcher,..a swiftly batted ball. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 104 A batter who hits a line drive (also called a liner or a scorcher..) is said to line it out. 1977Belfast Tel. 14 Feb. 21/8 He..diverted a scorcher from Pat Spence later in the game.
d. Something licentious or risqué (esp. a book or play).
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §281/6 Risqué joke or story,..scorcher. Ibid. §590/4 Scorcher, sexer, a risqué play. 1974P. Cave Dirtiest Picture Postcard ii. 12 Then he produced a scorcher which managed to get itself banned by the country's leading booksellers and nominated for public prosecution at the Old Bailey. 1978Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 15/3 (heading) It's a scorcher at the Duke's. A scorching new show opened at Lancaster's Duke's Playhouse on Friday. |