duck-drownder

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Noun

duck-drownder (plural duck-drownders)

  1. (especially Southern US) A very heavy rain.
    • 1971, Guy Harold Smith with Robert M. Basile, Conservation of natural resources‎[1]:
      The "duck drownder" flood along the Mississippi and the tributaries […] .
    • 1980, Garwood, W. R., Kill him, again‎[2]:
      “We got to move out of here, ahora. Someone from Chisum's bound to ride over this way, lookin’ for you—but you can't wait ‘em out in another duck-drownder."
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