If you need a word describe a really hot, sultry, sweltering day, you can always call say it’s swullocking. In parts of England, the dialectal verb swullock means “to broil with heat.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Swullocking”
If you need a word for a really hot, sweltering day, you know, that kind of day that’s muggy and hot outside and your hair is frizzing and all that, and you’ve run out of words to describe it, you can always describe that weather as swallocking.
S-W-U-L-L-O-C-K-I-N-G.
The verb to swallock is a dialectal term in Eastern England that means to broil with heat.
Is this commonly used or is this a historic term, arcade term?
It’s obsolete, but it’s really swalloking outside.
And it sounds like it because the swat reminds you of sweating and sweltering.
Yeah, just being hit in the face with a hot, wet sock, a wool sock, right?
A gym sock, a stinky gym sock that’s been there over the weekend.
Oh, I got swalloked.
