shower
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: showers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: showers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: showering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: showered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: showered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
pos: noun
examples: 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!
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
pos: noun
examples: I’m going to have a shower.
I’m going to take a shower.
gloss: A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
pos: noun
examples: Would male strippers be appropriate for the divorce shower?
Her church group has planned an adoption shower.
gloss: A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
pos: noun
examples: The shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid.
gloss: A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
pos: noun
examples: Her friends are throwing her a shower after her mom leaves.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: See also shower (juggling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
gloss: A battle, an attack; conflict.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: With this I maye be sure to come sauf / and goo sauf / and that the quene shal haue her lyberte as she had before / and neuer for no thynge that hath ben surmysed afore this tyme / she neuer fro this day stande in no peryll / for els sayd sir launcelot I dare auenture me to kepe her from an harder shoure than euer I kepte her
gloss: A shower of shit.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
UK
derogatory
examples: You all behaved like a shower, now you are to be treated like a shower
gloss: Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
derogatory
euphemistic
examples: It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.
gloss: A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
singular
examples: 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?
gloss: To spray with (a specified liquid) (followed by with).
pos: verb
gloss: To bathe using a shower.
pos: verb
gloss: To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
pos: verb
examples: The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.
Shower the people you love with love / Show them the way that you feel
gloss: To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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