scoury

adjective

1. Showery, marked by intermittent rain showers and wind.

   '... scoury (tempestuous) night.'

Where it comes from

From a dialectal sense of scour, "rain shower", from Old Norse skúr (“shower”), + -y.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry scoury (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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