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gully-washer

gully-washer is the alternative form of gullywasher.

Meaning of gullywasher

Noun

gullywasher (plural gullywashers)

  1. (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

Forms of gully-washer

pluralgully-washers

Questions about gully-washer

What is gully-washer the alternative form of?
Gully-washer is the alternative form of gullywasher.

Words near gully-washer in the dictionary

  1. gully washers
  2. gully-hole
  3. gully-holes
  4. gully-raker
  5. gully-rakers
  6. gully-washer
  7. gully-washers
  8. gullygut
  9. gullyguts
  10. gullying
  11. Gullys

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