golden shower

golden shower

English

golden shower flower (Cassia fistula)

golden shower tree (Cassia fistula)

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Noun

golden shower (plural golden showers)

1. A large, liberal bestowal of money or other financial benefits.
2. (idiomatic, slang, pornography) The act of a person urinating on another, usually for the sexual gratification of one or both persons.

   Synonym: GS

   • 1985, Stanislav Grof, Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 218:

     Among the frequently requested and highly priced practices were the “golden shower” and “brown shower,” being urinated and defecated on in a sexual context.

   • a. 1990, Bizarre Lifestyles, volume 1, number 1, page 53; quoted in Thomas Edward Murray and Thomas R. Murrell, The Language of Sadomasochism: A Glossary and Linguistic Analysis, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989, →ISBN, page 77:

     ULTRA BIZARRE FEMALE: Age 25, seeks to correspond with submissive men on female domination, foot worship, enema, golden shower and anus worship

3. The flowering plant Cassia fistula.

   Synonyms: pudding-pipe tree, golden rain tree, Indian laburnum

   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 7:

     Two elderly women sat knitting on that part of the veranda which was screened from the sun by a golden shower creeper […]

Derived terms

• golden shower boy
• golden shower queen

 

Translations

the flowering plant Cassia fistula

Burmese: ငု (my) (ngu.), ငုကြီး (my) (ngu.kri:), ငုရွှေ (my) (ngu.hrwe) Catalan: canyafistula f Chinese: Mandarin: 黃金雨／黄金雨 (huángjīnyǔ) German: Röhrenkassie f Hungarian: mannakasszia, csőkasszia Japanese: ナンバンサイカチ (nanban-saikachi) Korean: 카시아 (kasia) Malay: kayu raja, tengguli Malayalam: കണിക്കൊന്ന (ml) (kaṇikkonna) Portuguese: canafístula (pt) f Russian: ка́ссия тру́бчатая f (kássija trúbčataja) Spanish: caña fístula f Thai: คูน (th) (kuun), ราชพฤกษ์ (râat-chá-prʉ́k), ลมแล้ง

the act of a person urinating on another

French: douche dorée (fr) f Hebrew: מִקְלַחַת זָהָב‎ (he) f (miqláḥat zaháv) Portuguese: chuva dourada f Russian: золото́й дождь (ru) m (zolotój doždʹ) Spanish: lluvia dorada f

See also

Flowering plant Cassia fistula

• golden chain
• laburnum

 

Pornography

• brown shower
• Roman shower
• urolagnia

 

References

• “golden shower, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Further reading

• Cassia fistula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cassia fistula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cassia fistula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons