different between shower vs plethora

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English shour, from Old English sc?r, from Proto-West Germanic *sk?ru, from Proto-Germanic *sk?r?, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)??wer- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”). Cognate with Dutch schoer, German Schauer, Norwegian skur.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: shou'?r, IPA^(key): /??a?.?(?)/
• (US) enPR: shou'?r, IPA^(key): /??a?.?/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?), -a??(?)

Noun

shower (plural showers)

1. A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).
2. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.

   Synonym: shower bath

3. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

   (UK, Australia)

   (especially US)

   Synonym: shower bath

4. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.

5. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
   1. A bridal shower.

   2. A baby shower.

6. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
7. (chiefly Ireland, Britain, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
   • 1956, Private's Progress (motion picture):

     You all behaved like a shower, now you are to be treated like a shower

8. (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
   • 1991, Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland, page 208 (University of Chicago Press; ?ISBN, 9780226240718)

     It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shaw?)

Translations

Verb

shower (third-person singular simple present showers, present participle showering, simple past and past participle showered)

1. (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
2. To bathe using a shower.
3. To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.

4. (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.

Synonyms

• (bathe using a shower): have a shower (British), take a shower (especially US)

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From show +? -er.

Alternative forms

• show-er (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?.?/

Noun

shower (plural showers)

2. One who shows.
   • 2006, Bruce Christianson, ?Bruno Crispo, ?James A. Malcolm, Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop (page 18)

     When you show a credential there's a protocol whereby the showee has assurance that the shower possesses a credential of the particular type without actually seeing the bit string.

   • 2018, Elisabeth Reber, ?Cornelia Gerhardt, Embodied Activities in Face-to-Face and Mediated Settings (page 153)

     Once the showee looks at the object, the shower removes his or her gaze from the showee and gazes back at the object (see below and Fig. 5.2).

4. An object or activity that is shown in a contest.

5. (slang) A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid. [from 1990s]

   Antonym: grower

Translations

Further reading

• shower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Shower (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Howser, Whoser, howers, reshow, showre, whores

Swedish

Noun

shower

1. indefinite plural of show

English

Etymology

From Late Latin pl?th?ra, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pl?th?r?, “fullness, satiety”), from ????? (pl?th?, “to be full”) +? -? (-?, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pl??th?r?, pl??dh?r?, pl?thô?r?, IPA^(key): /?pl?????/, /?pl?ð???/, /pl???????/
• (General American) enPR: pl??th?r?, IPA^(key): /?pl?????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

plethora (plural plethorae or plethoras)

1. (usually followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
   • 1817, Francis Jeffrey, review of Lalla Rookh, in the Edinburgh Review

     He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.

   • 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage

     I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent.

   • 1927, H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction)

     Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German.

   • 1986, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, Randy Newman, ¡Three Amigos! (film)

     Jefe: We have many beautiful piñatas for your birthday celebration, each one filled with little surprises!

     El Guapo: How many piñatas?

     Jefe: Many piñatas, many!

     El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?

     Jefe: A what?

     El Guapo: A plethora.

     Jefe: Oh yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.

     El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?

     Jefe: Why, El Guapo?

     El Guapo: Well, you just told me that I had a plethora, and I would just like to know if you know what it means to have a plethora. I would not like to think that someone would tell someone else he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.

     Jefe: El Guapo, I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education, but could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?
2. (medicine) Chronic excess of blood in the skin, usually in the face.

Synonyms

• (excess, abundance): glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slew

Related terms

• plethoric

Translations

See also

• myriad

References

• “plethora” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
  Pronounced: /?pl???r?/, /pl?????r?/.

Anagrams

• Althorpe, traphole, tropheal

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (pl?th?r?, “fullness, satiety”), from ????? (pl?th?, “to be full”) +? -? (-?, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ple?to.ra/, [pl??t?????]

Noun

pl?th?ra f (genitive pl?th?rae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) plethora

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: plethora