SHOWER, SHOWERY (rain)
(also see RAIN)
ADJECTIVES
► AINISH unpleasant, used esp. of the weather; showery, rainy → 1814 Eng. dial.
► BLEARY bleak, windy, cold, showery → 1874 Eng. dial.
► CATCHING of the weather: showery, uncertain, changeable → 1811 Eng. dial.
► CATCHY ► KETCHY of the weather: showery, uncertain, changeable → 1872 Eng. dial.
► DABBLY of the weather: wet, rainy, showery, damp → 1879 Eng. dial.
► DAGGLY wet, showery → 1869 Eng. dial.
► DAMPING showery, drizzling → 1897 Eng. dial.
► DINGING showery → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► EASTICK cold, showery → 1908 Sc.
► GAGEY ► GAGY of the weather: uncertain, risky, showery → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► HAINISH unpleasant, used esp. of the weather; showery, rainy → 1814 Eng. dial.
► IMBRIFEROUS rain-bringing; showery → 1813 rare
► LAPPERY wet, rainy, showery → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► LEAKING of weather: showery → c1420 obs.
► LECKY showery → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► SCADDY of the weather: showery → Bk1904 Eng. dial.
► SCOORING showery, wet and windy → 1939 Sc.
► SCOURIE ► SCOURY ► SCOWRIE showery, having intermittent showers and gusts of wind → 1865 Sc.
► SCOUTHERIE ► SCOUTHRY of the weather: threatening, abounding in flying showers → 1794 Sc.
► SCUDDY misty, showery, foggy → B1900 Eng. dial.
► WALLOWISH of the weather: showery, sleety, when there is neither thaw nor frost → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► BLANDIGO shower of rain → 1691 Eng. dial. obs.
► BLYTE a flying shower → Bk1911 Sc.
► BRASH a sudden gust, shower, or thunderclap → Bk1911 Sc.
► DACKLIN a slight shower → 1808 Sc. obs.
► DAG a heavy shower → 1808 Eng. dial.
► DAG OF RAIN ► DAG OF WET a slight, misty shower; thick, small rain → 1878 Eng. dial.
► DAVID GOWER a shower (rain) → 1990s rhyming sl.
► DRIBBLE a shower or snowstorm → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► FAIRY BOWER a shower (rain) → Bk1999 Aust. rhyming sl.
► HAITCH a slight, passing shower → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► LAMB-BLASTS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► LAMB-SHOWERS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► LAMB-STORMS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs → 1790 Eng. dial.
► LECKING-TIME showery weather with short intervals of sunshine → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► NISK a slight or passing shower → 1908 Sc.
► PAYLING a driving, beating shower → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► PRIDE OF THE MORNING a light shower, or dew at sunrise, traditionally taken as indicating a fine day to come → 1777 Eng. dial.
► RAFF a short sharp shower of rain or snow, accompanied by gusts of wind; a driving shower → 1790 Sc.
► SCAUR a shower, a short flying scurry of rain → 1893 Eng. dial.
► SCOORIE a shower; a sudden gust of wind accompanied by rain → 1895 Sc.
► SCOUR ► SKOUR a shower of rain, esp. of a passing or intermittent fall, and usually one driven by gusts of wind → c1780 Sc.
► SCOUTHER ► SCOWTHER a slight shower of rain → 1794 Sc.
► SCOUTHERUM ► SCOWTHERUM a very light shower → 1866 Sc.
► SCOUTHRY a slight shower of rain → 1794 Sc.
► SCOW a squally shower of rain; a wind and rain storm → 1895 Sc.
► SKIFF a light gust of wind or shower of rain, etc. → 1819 Sc.
► SPITTER a shower or snowstorm → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► SPRITZ a slight rain or shower → 1970s US sl.
► SUMMER-SOB a summer shower → 1768 Sc.
VERBS
► SCREEN A SHOWER to protect from a shower → 1814 Sc.