Meanings
- UKUSdialectalnot comparableInclined to rain.
Presently the rain thinend and a weak sun tried to sun. 'Better move,' said Dick, 'it still looks rainified.'
2012, Noel Streatfeild, Tea by the nursery fire : a children's nanny at the turn of the century, page 1553 more examples
... it certainly looked rainified, but it had done this so often of late that my conclusion was that it was "the same old change," and would all clear off with the advent of day. To a man who had been looking for it, dawn was just visible when I called[…]
1911, The Boy's Own Annual... looks rather rainified tonight hope it wont for this is my night to stand guard Tues. April 12. Stood guard last night till 12 oclock and as my luck would have it the rain did not come until just as my hour for guard Expired.
1958, The Colorado Magazine"Them there apple boxes be cledgy with mud," sasid my foreman, "I disremember it being so rainified since I be a nipper".
1993, David Atkins, The cuckoo in June : tales of a Sussex orchard, page 53
Origin
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