sweltry

[swel-tree]

swel·try

[swel-tree]
adjective, swel·tri·er, swel·tri·est.
hot, sizzling, roasting; sweltering.

Origin:
1570–80; swelt(e)r + -y1; compare sultry
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Sweltry is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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sweltry

adjective
excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; "a sweltering room"; "sweltering athletes" [syn: sweltering
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