Etymologies
- gully + washer (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I would get out there and shovel it after every gullywasher too.”
“Seriously, though, that was a bonafide gullywasher we had today.”
“Yesterday afternoon we had a twenty-minute gullywasher.”
“Before they were halfway across the park, the sky thundered, and the spattering raindrops became a gullywasher.”
“This rain was not a summer take-no-prisoners gullywasher, the kind that can shred crops with three inches of hail.”
“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.”
“You can get one gullywasher, you see, and a record won't be set.”
“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.”
“A minor gullywasher did not deter the hoards of holiday shoppers from transforming the major malls into a festive gridlock Saturday.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gullywasher’.
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She She She
Words containing "she" but excluding words beginning with "she"
usher, ashen, eggshell, freshen, bolshevik, woodshed, abashed, whirling dervishes, usherettes, diminishes, quashed, unsheathed and 51 more...
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Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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Katnguyen's Words
amenable, cornicopia, truthiness, collaborative, buzzword, nexus, zenith, apex, nondenominational, omnipotent, omniscient, sinecure and 37 more...
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Funny Words
Funny sounding words
befuddled, gizmo, teeter-totter, lollygag, cahoots, whippersnapper, kitty-corner, shenanigan, skedaddle, tomfoolery, hornswoggle, humdinger and 38 more...
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VictoriaPL's Words
misadventure, argyle, gargoyle, harlequin, paramour, vorpal, mercurial, carpathian, serpentine, pandemonium, catharsis, miasma and 46 more...
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victoriapl a heavy rain; downpour; deluge. Dec 2, 2007