gullywasher
nounEtymology From gully + washer. First use appears c. 1903.
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Midwestern US, Southern US, US, Western, Informal An intense, but usually short-lived, rainstorm.
- "Then maybe some preacher got a tad too zealous on Sunday" Thinking of his " frog-strangler," Lucy said, "In Montana, we'd call this a gullywasher." " Gullywasher. I like that." She could hear him, up there on the island in Thomas Jefferson's ...2008, Jonathan Raban, Surveillance, Vintage, →ISBN, page 110: