Meaning sultry
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sultry


characterized by oppressive heat and humidity New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics arrive just as school sports ramp up in sultry August temperatures. — Washington Post (Aug 9, 2011) [..]
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1590s, "oppressively hot, close and moist" (of weather), ultimately from swelter + alteration of -y (2), either as a contraction of sweltry or from obsolete verb sulter "to swelter" [..]
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(adj) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity(adj) sexually exciting or gratifying
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(weather) hot and humid very hot and dry; torrid sexually enthralling
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