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Meaning of gullywasher | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

An intense, but usually short-lived, rainstorm.

Midwestern-US, Southern-US, US, Western, informal

Examples

“"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 ...”

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