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shower

noun
/ˈʃaʊ.ə(ɹ)/UK/ˈʃuː.ɐ//ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/US/ˈʃəʊ.ə(ɹ)/UK/ˈʃoʊ.ɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English schour (“shower”), from Old English sċūr (“shower”), from Proto-West Germanic *skūru (“shower”), from Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“storm, short shower”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- (“north, north wind, cold wind, rain shower”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch schoer (“downpour, heavy rainshower”), German Schauer (“shower”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skur (“shower”), Faroese skúrur (“shower”), Icelandic skúr (“shower”), Norn skur (“squall”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌰 (skūra, “storm”), Italian coro (“northwestern wind”), Spanish cauro (“northwestern wind”), Belarusian се́вер (sjévjer), сі́вер (sívjer), Bulgarian and Russian се́вер (séver, “north”), Czech and Slovak sever (“north”), Macedonian север (sever, “north”), Serbo-Croatian sȅvēr, sjȅvēr (“north”), Slovene sẹ́ver (“north”), Ukrainian сі́вер (síver, “cold, cold, bitter wind”).

  1. derived from *(s)ḱēwer-✻ — “north, north wind, cold wind, rain shower”
  2. inherited from *skūrō✻
  3. inherited from *skūru✻
  4. inherited from sċūr
  5. inherited from schour

Definitions

  1. A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or…

    A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.

    • Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells.
    • They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.
    • Occasionally, the sun pierces the clouds like a searchlight to illuminate a feature such as a farm, copse or stream, before being overwhelmed by an advancing shower. Wordsworth would have loved it!

  2. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either…

    A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.

  3. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

    • I’m going to have a shower.
    • I’m going to take a shower.
  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.

      • a shower of sparks;  a meteor shower;  a Gatorade shower
      • The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire.

    2. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person…

      A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.

      • Would male strippers be appropriate for the divorce shower?
      • Her church group has planned an adoption shower.

    3. A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around…

      A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.

      • See also shower (juggling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

    4. A battle, an attack

      A battle, an attack; conflict.

    5. A shower of shit.

      • You all behaved like a shower, now you are to be treated like a shower

    6. Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier

    7. A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.

      • But when I tweeted it out, most of the responses (from the more than one million viewers) were along the lines of: 'what do you expect from this shower?

    8. To spray with (a specified liquid) (followed by with).

    9. To bathe using a shower.

    10. To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.

      • Shower the people you love with love / Show them the way that you feel

    11. To rain in a shower

      To rain in a shower; to cascade down.

    12. One who shows.

      • When you show a credential there's a protocol whereby the showee has assurance that the shower possesses a credential of the particular type without actually seeing the bit string.
      • Once the showee looks at the object, the shower removes his or her gaze from the showee and gazes back at the object (see below and Fig. 5.2).

    13. An object or activity that is shown in a contest.

      • That calf is going to be a great shower at the fair this year.

    14. A person whose penis is close to its erect size when flaccid

      A person whose penis is close to its erect size when flaccid; the penis itself.

      • As a man who can best be described as a "grower not a shower", I helped Brent realize that many people in the gay community are concerned in a very adolescent way with their dick size, including me.
      • "Growers" are guys whose penises tend to contract a lot lengthwise when flaccid, while "show-ers" are guys whose penises could be said to merely "deflate" without contracting much in length.
      • His dick, if I remember correctly, is more of a shower than a grower[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shower. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at shower. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at shower

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA