showerfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

showerful (comparative more showerful, superlative most showerful)

1. Full of showers; rainy, teary, etc.
   • 1872, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette:

     The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent, And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring Stared at the spate.

   • 1938, John William Mackail, Select epigrams from the Greek anthology, page 24:

     Why so woe-begone ? and why, Philaenis, these reckless tearings of hair, and suffusion of showerful eyes ?

   • 1967, New South African Writing - Issue 4, page 50:

     It was warm there too in the last icy spasms of winter. The spring was showerful.

語源 2

shower +‎ -ful

名詞

showerful (複数形 showerfuls または showersful)

1. A quantity that falls in a shower.
   • 1970, D. W.Thomas, Documents from Old Testament times, page 21:

     Enlil hates me and I can no longer dwell among you, can no longer set my footsteps on the soil that is Enlils; but if I go down into the Apsu, dwelling with my lord Ea, then will Enlil send you showerfuls, raining down abundance on you.

   • 1980, Sean Henry, Tales from the West of Ireland, page 35:

     After the first showerful of earth was flung in over the victims, the infant Patsy stirred his feeble hand slightly.

   • 1991, Grace Nichols, Can I buy a slice of sky?::

     white snow falls from the sky o o w o o in small drops in big drops in whole showersful

   • 2000, Merrill Joan Gerber, The Kingdom of Brooklyn, page 81:

     Our show tonight is powerful, We'll wow you with an hourful Of showers from a showerful of stars

   • 2011, Garry Mulholland, Stranded at the Drive-In: The 100 Best Teen Movies:

     While Jim McAllister may continue lying to himself about his usefulness through another couple of broken marriages and career failures, you come out of Election suspecting that Tracy's delusions will, at some point not too far away, hit her with an awful powerful showerful of truth, and she will stagger under its weight.