shower

Meanings

Noun

• A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).
• 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 battle, an attack; conflict.
• A shower of shit.
• One who shows.
• An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
• A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid.

Verb

• To spray with (a specified liquid).
• To bathe using a shower.
• To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
• To rain in a shower; to cascade down.

Related

Similar words

• have a shower , take a shower

Origin

• From Middle English shour, from Old English scūr, from Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer-. Cognate with Dutch schoer, German Schauer, Norwegian skur.
• From show + -er.