thundershower
nounEtymology From thunder + shower.
1
A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
- The thundershower poured down on us as we ran home, but returned to a drizzle after several minutes.
- [S]ometimes, like the priests of Baal in the Bible, he would cut himself with knives till the blood fell upon the ground in great drops suggestive of an oncoming thunder-shower.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72:
- Derived terms
- thundershowery
- Related terms
- cloudburst