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even-down en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (UK, dialectal) Of rain: pouring straight down.
    • ... that heaviest rain, in even-down drench, An' scarce a sea itsel', cou'd quench : […] 1813, Ebenezer Picken, Miscellaneous Poems, Songs, &c., Partly in the Scottish Dialect: With a Glossary, page 78:
    • THERE had been an even-down-pour of rain in the night, and the school-master's mission looked even less kindly in the drowie day. 1897, Grace Leslie Keith Johnston, 'My bonnie lady', by Leslie Keith, page 46:
    • ... he returned with the intelligence that it was "an even-down pour!" Old Riddel, somewhat dubious, was led to the door to satisfy himself of the fact. 1846, James Paterson, The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire:
  2. (UK, dialectal) Of a person: forthright; honest.

even-down en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (UK, dialectal) Thoroughly.