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English word shower comes from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer-, and later Proto-Germanic *skūrō (Shelter, shack Rainshower. Storm.)

*(s)ḱēwer- (Proto-Indo-European)

*skūrō (Proto-Germanic)

Shelter, shack Rainshower. Storm.

scūr (Old English)

scur (Old English)

Shower.

shour (Middle English)

A rain shower.. An assault.. Hardship.

shower (English)

(chiefly, Irish, UK, Australia, pejorative) A shower of shit.. (chiefly, Irish, euphemistic, pejorative, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.. A baby shower.. A bridal shower.. A brief fall of precipitation.. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by [...]

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