gullywasher

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noun

An intense, but usually short-lived, rainstorm.

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Meanings

noungullywasher (plural gullywashers)

plural gullywashers · alternative gully-washer · alternative gully washer

  1. Midwestern USSouthern USUSWesterninformalAn intense, but usually short-lived, rainstorm.

    "Then maybe some preacher got a tad too zealous on Sunday" Thinking of his " frog-strangler," Lucy said, "In Montana, we'd call this a gullywasher." " Gullywasher. I like that." She could hear him, up there on the island in Thomas Jefferson's ...

    2008, Jonathan Raban, Surveillance, Vintage, →ISBN, page 110

Origin

From gully + washer. First use appears c. 1903.

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APA

gullywasher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gullywasher

MLA

“gullywasher.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gullywasher. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gullywasher,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gullywasher.

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