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thundershower

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From thunder + shower.

  1. A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.

    The thundershower poured down on us as we ran home, but returned to a drizzle after several minutes.

    [S]ometimes, like the priests of Baal in the Bible, he would cut himself with knives till the blood fell upon the ground in great drops suggestive of an oncoming thunder-shower.