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- noun Alternative form of
gullywasher .
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Examples
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Thursday is our gully-washer day and with the soils already saturated by recent heavy rains, the recently issued Flood Watch seems reasonable.
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Bordwalk wuz nyce, but it rayned a few tymes, inklooding a troo DOWNpore and gully-washer from abowt 3 to 4 in teh afternoon.
Scuse me - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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There was a storm around that time, a real gully-washer.
Thin Air Rachel Caine 2007
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That's in quotes because I have yet to see a definition of "showers" that doesn't allow for completely dry or a gully-washer, depending on where or when you are...
Gray day jhetley 2007
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If it's raining like this (steady, light stream, nothing like a Nebraska gully-washer) on the other side of Tempe, disc for Eric might be cancelled.
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To make matters worse, a gully-washer barrelled through before the plants had a chance to establish deep roots.
2 Case Studies 1993
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And if we was lucky, it didn't come a gully-washer and wash it away
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"If we don't get one more good gully-washer, " Magnes Volkema predicted, -we're going to be in real trouble.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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A man's either frizzled clean outta his saddle by the heat -- or else his hoss's belly's deep in the mud an 'he gits him a gully-washer down the back of his neck!
Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958
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Just hours after a gully-washer, the rain gardens are hardly wet.
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