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gullywashers

gullywashers is the plural 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

Questions about gullywashers

What is gullywashers the plural of?
Gullywashers is the plural of gullywasher.

Words near gullywashers in the dictionary

  1. gullygut
  2. gullyguts
  3. gullying
  4. Gullys
  5. gullywasher
  6. gullywashers
  7. gullyway
  8. gullyways
  9. Gulmarrad
  10. gulmohar
  11. gulmohars

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