scorcher

English

scorch +‎ -er

scorcher (plural scorchers)

(literally) One who, or that which, scorches.
Synonym: sizzler
(colloquial) A very hot day.
Synonym: sizzler

Tomorrow will be a scorcher, so carry water and use sunscreen if you're going out.
(soccer) A very good goal, notably made with a very hard shot.
What a scorcher! See the net reverberate!
(colloquial) A caustic rebuke or criticism.
(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.
(colloquial, dated) One who rides a bicycle furiously on a public highway.

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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