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weather-gaw

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Etymology

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Probably borrowed from Scots weather-ga, weather-gaw, weather-gow, possibly from English weather-gall,[1] from weather + gall (“blister, swelling; (figurative) something exasperating or galling”).[2]

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Noun

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weather-gaw (plural weather-gaws) (UK, dialectal, often Scotland)

  1. An instance of some phenomenon in the sky said to signal bad weather, such as an incomplete or secondary rainbow, or a parhelion or sun dog; a weather-gall or water-gall.
  2. A period of fine weather in the midst of bad weather.

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References

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  1. ^ “weather-ga(w), -gow” under “weather, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
  2. ^ “weather-gall, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “gall, n.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024; “gall2, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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