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WAYS TO SAY “VERY HOT” (hot can also mean sexy)


Hello ladies and gentlemen. The weather is lovely and warm, finally, and here’s what we Brits say 👇😎🇬🇧 
It is …. outside (very hot: most of these are rather informal in use and are used to really exaggerate… as we Brits do) 
– baking 
– boiling 
– roasting 
– sweltering 
– scorching ( a scorcher) 
– sizzling (like when frying hot food) 
– I spent the day under the umbrella because it was baking and i needed to protect my sensitive bald head. 👴 
– I sat all day under the scorching sun… hence why i now look like a dried grape. 

– The weather forecast says tomorrow will be an absolute scorcher. So it’s bikini time!!! – Yeah, I heard it’s going to be sweltering tomorrow, blin! 
Collocations: ☀☀☀ 
– Blisteringly hot 
– Scorching hot (compound adj) 
– under the blazing sun (very hot and bright sun) 
– Under the sizzling sun 
We have these words (adjectives): 
– humid (when the weather is hot with water vapour in the air: the standard word) 


– sticky (when it’s a very humid day – like today in Moscow) 
– sultry (hot and humid) 
– muggy (unpleasantly hot and humid; semi-formal)

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