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From show + -er. The hyphenated spelling serves to distinguish from shower (“precipitation”) and related senses, which are pronounced differently and are etymologically unrelated.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
From show + -er. The hyphenated spelling serves to distinguish from shower (“precipitation”) and related senses, which are pronounced differently and are etymologically unrelated.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.