Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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SWELTRY, adj. Oppressively hot, close, sweltering, sultry, of weather (I., ne. and m.Sc. 1972). Obs. in Eng. exc. dial.Peb. 1817 R. Brown Comic Poems 172:
Like stirks whan stanged, on sweltry days.Sc. 1843 Blackwood's Mag. (April) 499:
The fierce fire of the sun had rendered the atmosphere sweltry and oppressive.Ayr. 1868 J. Ramsay Woodnotes 257:
One sweltry summer day.e.Lth. 1885 S. Mucklebackit Rhymes 203:
On thro' sweltry scorching summer.
