scorcherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈskɔː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈskɔɹ.t͡ʃɚ/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)

名詞

scorcher (plural scorchers)

1. (literally) One who, or that which, scorches.

   Synonym: sizzler

2. (colloquial) A very hot day.

   Synonyms: sizzler, stinker

   Tomorrow will be a scorcher, so carry water and use sunscreen if you're going out.

   • 2022 July 15, Gwilym Mumford, “The Guide #43: Pop culture picks to help you through a heatwave”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Meteorologists are prepping their “new record high temperature” press releases, tabloid editors are readying their ‘“phwoar, what a scorcher” headlines (while happily ignoring the climate emergency doing the scorching) and everyone else is preparing to hunker down somewhere cool until it’s all over.

   • 2022 August 30, Soumya Karlamangla, “Brutal Heat Wave Expected in California This Week”, in New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     A weeklong scorcher is expected to bake much of Central and Southern California from today to Labor Day. Temperatures could reach up to 115 degrees in the Inland Empire and 112 degrees in the San Fernando Valley and San Joaquin Valley, while hovering just below triple digits closer to the coast.

3. (soccer) A very good goal, notably made with a very hard shot.

   What a scorcher! See the net reverberate!

   • 2017 December 16, Paul MacInnes, “Marcos Alonso scorcher secures Chelsea nervy victory over Southampton”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Marcos Alonso scorcher secures Chelsea nervy victory over Southampton [title]

4. (colloquial) A caustic rebuke or criticism.
5. (colloquial, dated) A bad person.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `Yes, sir - of course, sir, that's just what he said they was - 'cautions, downright scorchers' - sir, and I'm sure I don't doubt it, seeing what I know of them, and their hot-potting ways,' went on Job sadly.

6. (colloquial, dated) One who rides a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
   • 1897, “The copper and the scorcher”, in Edmond Redmond, editor, Lyra Cyclus […] , Rochester, NY, page 63:

     “You're arrested for fast riding.”
     When the scorcher heard the shout
     He looked o'er his shoulder,
     And he didn't do a thing
     But pedal all the harder
     And make the welkin ring.

参考

• back of the net
• wondergoal

参照

• “scorcher” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.
• “scorcher n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.