Meaning of shower | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation
2. rain
3. A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
4. One who shows.
5. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump
6. shower (precipitation)
7. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
8. An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
9. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself
10. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
11. A person whose penis is close to its erect size when flaccid; the penis itself.
    slang
12. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower
13. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
14. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts
15. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
16. A bridal shower.
17. A baby shower.
18. A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.
19. A battle, an attack; conflict.
    obsolete
20. A shower of shit.
    Australia, Ireland, UK, derogatory
21. Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
    Ireland, derogatory, euphemistic
22. A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.
    British, informal, singular

Equivalents

Examples

“Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells.”

“They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.”

“Occasionally, the sun pierces the clouds like a searchlight to illuminate a feature such as a farm, copse or stream, before being overwhelmed by an advancing shower. Wordsworth would have loved it!”

“I’m going to have a shower.”

“I’m going to take a shower.”

“a shower of sparks;  a meteor shower;  a Gatorade shower”

“The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire.”

“Would male strippers be appropriate for the divorce shower?”

“Her church group has planned an adoption shower.”

“The shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid.”

“Her friends are throwing her a shower after her mom leaves.”

“See also shower (juggling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia”

“With this I maye be sure to come sauf / and goo sauf / and that the quene shal haue her lyberte as she had before / and neuer for no thynge that hath ben surmysed afore this tyme / she neuer fro this day stande in no peryll / for els sayd sir launcelot I dare auenture me to kepe her from an harder shoure than euer I kepte her”

“You all behaved like a shower, now you are to be treated like a shower”

“It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.”

“But when I tweeted it out, most of the responses (from the more than one million viewers) were along the lines of: 'what do you expect from this shower?”

“When you show a credential there's a protocol whereby the showee has assurance that the shower possesses a credential of the particular type without actually seeing the bit string.”

“Once the showee looks at the object, the shower removes his or her gaze from the showee and gazes back at the object (see below and Fig. 5.2).”

“That calf is going to be a great shower at the fair this year.”

“As a man who can best be described as a "grower not a shower", I helped Brent realize that many people in the gay community are concerned in a very adolescent way with their dick size, including me.”

“"Growers" are guys whose penises tend to contract a lot lengthwise when flaccid, while "show-ers" are guys whose penises could be said to merely "deflate" without contracting much in length.”

“His dick, if I remember correctly, is more of a shower than a grower[…]”

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