SULTRY
ADJECTIVES
1496 — SWOLY oppressively hot, sultry → obs.
1575 — SWELTRY of heat, weather, etc.: oppressively hot, sweltering, sultry → arch.
1581 — SOULTERING → SULTERING sweltering, sultry → obs.
1586 — SWELTY sweltering, sultry
1603 — SWOLTERY sultry, sweltering → obs.
1721 — SWOLE-HOT oppressively hot, sultry → obs.
1746 — BULDERING of the weather: hot, muggy, sultry; threatening thunder → Eng. dial.
1768 — MEETH of the weather: hot, sultry, close; of persons: exhausted with heat → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1777 — QUELSTRING of the weather: hot, sultry; sweltering → Eng. dial.
1777 — QUELTERING → QUELTRING of the weather: hot, sultry; sweltering → Eng. dial.
1777 — QUILSTERING of the weather: sweltering, close, hot, sultry → Eng. dial.
1790 — FADY of the weather: damp, sultry, close → Eng. dial.
1825 — BLOOMY hot, sultry → Eng. dial.
1825 — GLORGIE sultry: applied to a warm suffocating day, with a darkened sun → Sc.
1849 — FAINTY of the weather: close, sultry, oppressive → Eng. dial.
1876 — SWOLTEN oppressed with head, sultry
1885 — FAINT of the weather: close, sultry, oppressive → Eng. dial.
1895 — UNKETTY of the weather: close, sultry, depressing → Eng. dial.
1895 — UNKID of the weather: close, sultry, depressing → Eng. dial.
1898 — CAUMY → CAUMY WARM sultry → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..L19 — LUNK of the weather: close, sultry → Irish sl.
1905 — MEUTHY → MUTHY of the weather: sultry, close, mild and damp → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — QUALMY of the weather: close, sultry, producing sickly languor → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1938 — PUTHERY sultry, close → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1667 — SULTER a spell of sultry weather → obs.
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