SWELTER, SWELTERING
ADJECTIVES
► BAKING very hot; sweltering → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► QUELSTRING ► QUILSTERING of the weather: hot, sultry; sweltering → 1777 Eng. dial.
► QUELTERING ► QUELTRING of the weather: hot, sultry; sweltering → 1777 Eng. dial.
► SOULTERING ► SULTERING sweltering, sultry → 1581 obs.
► SWELTING sweltering → 1542 obs.
► SWELTRY of heat, weather, etc.: oppressively hot, sweltering, sultry → 1575 arch.
► SWELTY sweltering, sultry → 1586
► SWOLTERY sultry, sweltering → 1603 obs.
VERBS
► MAFT of a person or place: to be uncomfortably hot; to be sweltering → 2010 Eng. dial.
► SOULTER ► SULTER to swelter → 1581 obs.
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