cloudbust
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cloudbust (plural cloudbusts)
- (dialect) A cloudburst.
- 1929 June, Boys' Life, page 72:
- A sudden cloudbust up in the hills during the night […] swelled the creek
- 1949, George Palmer Putnam, Hickory shirt: a novel of Death Valley in 1850:
- "Setting up for a cloudbust," Hickory said. "She don't aim to hit right around here, anyway."