There are many slang terms for a heavy rain, including one suggestion from a caller: “pumpkin floater”. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Pumpkin Floaters”
We’ve talked before on the show, Grant, about heavy rains and all the different terms there are for heavy rains, like gully washer, gully toad strangler, toad strangler, raining cats and dogs.
We heard from Addy Bedford, who suggested another one that she’s used, which is pumpkin floater.
Pumpkin floater.
Pumpkin floater.
As in, it fell so hard, so fast that the ground couldn’t absorb it, and your pumpkin crop floated away.
That is a real pumpkin floater.
I like that.
I do too.
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