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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 fern
  2. gully sucker
  3. gully suckers
  4. gully trap
  5. gully wash
  6. gully washer
  7. gully washers
  8. gully-hole
  9. gully-holes
  10. gully-raker
  11. gully-rakers

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