"gullywasher" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From gully + washer (1815–1825).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2008, Jonathan Raban, Surveillance, Vintage, →ISBN, page 110:",
          "text": "\"Then maybe some preacher got a tad too zealous on Sunday\" Thinking of his \" frog-strangler,\" Lucy said, \"In Montana, we'd call this a gullywasher.\" \" Gullywasher. I like that.\" She could hear him, up there on the island in Thomas Jefferson's ...",
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        "An intense, but usually short-lived, rainstorm."
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        "(US, informal, Southern US, Midwestern US, Western US) An intense, but usually short-lived, rainstorm."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "gully-washer"
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        "Southern-US",
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  "word": "gullywasher"
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  "etymology_text": "From gully + washer (1815–1825).",
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        "An intense, but usually short-lived, rainstorm."
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        "(US, informal, Southern US, Midwestern US, Western US) An intense, but usually short-lived, rainstorm."
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