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- noun US, informal An
intense , but usually short-lived,rainstorm .
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Examples
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I would get out there and shovel it after every gullywasher too.
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Seriously, though, that was a bonafide gullywasher we had today.
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Seriously, though, that was a bonafide gullywasher we had today.
June 2006 2006
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Yesterday afternoon we had a twenty-minute gullywasher.
August 23rd, 2005 2005
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Before they were halfway across the park, the sky thundered, and the spattering raindrops became a gullywasher.
Lunatics Denton, Bradley 1996
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This rain was not a summer take-no-prisoners gullywasher, the kind that can shred crops with three inches of hail.
KOKOPELLI’S FLUTE WILL HOBBS 1995
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We do not presume to dictate, but, if it pleases Thee, send us, not a gentle sizzle-sizzle, but a sod-soaker, O Lord, a gullywasher.
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come John Fox 1891
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"You can get one gullywasher, you see, and a record won't be set."
Thestar.com - Home Page Amanda Kwan 2011
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It's been "lightly" raining here all night (well really for the past 2 days) But I can handle that as long as we don't get the gullywasher we got a few weeks ago.
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A minor gullywasher did not deter the hoards of holiday shoppers from transforming the major malls into a festive gridlock Saturday.
victoriapl commented on the word gullywasher
a heavy rain; downpour; deluge.
December 3, 2007