a (real) frog-choker



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a (real) frog-choker

A particularly heavy or torrential downpour of rain. (Chiefly heard in the southern United States.) It's a real frog-choker out there today—looks like we'll have to have our barbecue another day. There's no way I'm biking to work in a frog-choker like this!

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Danr-Ancient Scandinavian
Osamuo-sah-mooJapanese
MÁRtuska-Hungarian
SenÁN-Irish
Rebekkare-BE-kah (German), RE-bek-kah (Finnish)German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish, Biblical Greek
Rajiv-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Nepali