| \KLOUD-burst\ | noun
1. a sudden and very heavy rainfall.
| | Quotes | I wanted to leave earlier because one fellow had brought jazz records, and jazz drives me up the wall, but it started raining--a real cloudburst. The skylight started leaking, and we had to put pots and pans around to catch the drips.
-- Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Lived High, 1990 | | | | | | | | | | Origin of cloudburst | | Cloudburst is an Americanism whose construction is similar to, and may be a translation of, the German noun with the same meaning, Wolkenbruch. It entered English in the early 1800s. | |
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