shower
Pronunciation: /ˈʃaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
The English word “shower” has 19 meanings listed here.
noun
- A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
- 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.
- An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
- A bridal shower.
- A baby shower.
- 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.
- A battle, an attack; conflict.
- A shower of shit.
- Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier.
- A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.
- One who shows.
- An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
- A person whose penis is close to its erect size when flaccid; the penis itself.
verb
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…
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