| 单词 | plump shower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplump shower 2. Scottish and Irish English (northern). In early use more fully plump shower. A sudden heavy shower or downpour. Cf. thunder-plump n. at thunder n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour > sudden rashOE waterspout1586 downfall1603 plumpa1688 spate1727 cloud-burst1872 a1688 J. Renwick Choice Coll. Serm. (1776) 234 Like a plump shower ready to be poured down upon us in this land. 1705 R. Wodrow Analecta (1842) I. 77 I was tosted between wind and wave, with sin within, and adversity without; after that came like a plump-shouer from heaven. 1826 A. Cunningham Paul Jones I. ii There will be a plump o' rain that wad turn a barley mill. 1857 K. Young Let. 10 Sept. in Delhi—1857 (1902) xi. 273 I wish it would come down a good plump of rain. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 74 The whole day was showery, with occasional drenching plumps. 1933 Scots Mag. Jan. 305 What's the sense in getting drooked when There's shelter? It's going to be a proper plump. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 215/1 Plump,..a sudden heavy shower that falls straight down. 1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's v. 51 We used to make paper boats and race them down the gutter after a good plump of rain. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 257/2 Plump, a heavy downpour of rain. < as lemmas |
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