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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal, often
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noun
A period of fine weather in the midst of bad weather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal, often
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History
Probably borrowed from Scots weather-ga, weather-gaw, weather-gow, possibly from English weather-gall, from weather + gall (“blister, swelling; (figurative) something exasperating or galling”). cognates * Dutch weergal * German wettergalle
Across languages
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