showery
English
Etymology
shower + -y
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aʊəɹi
Adjective
showery (comparative showerier, superlative showeriest)
- Given to showers; having frequent rainfall.
- 1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], published 1902, OCLC 487669963:
- A gentleman goes forth on a showery and miry day. He returns immaculate in the evening with the gloss still on his hat and his boots.
- 2007, William Trevor, "The Children" in Cheating at Canasta, New York: Viking, pp. 157-8,
- The sun came out after what had been a showery morning, allowing the celebration to take place in the garden.
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- Of or relating to a shower or showers.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 757-9:
- Over their heads a crystal firmament, / Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with pure / Amber, and colours of the showery arch.
- 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 9, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
- She knew exactly how each of these trees would talk if only she could wake them, and what sort of human form it would put on. She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face, and fond of dancing.
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Anagrams
- Howerys