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rain dogs and cats en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, dated, idiomatic, rare) Alternative form of rain cats and dogs.
    • The Pedlars of our age have business yet, / And gladly would against the Fayr-day fit / Themselves with such a Roofe, that can secure / Their Wares from Dogs and Cats rain'd in showre. 1651, Henry Vaughan, Olor Iscanus:
    • When it rains Dogs and Cats in Hell, / The shelter'd Centaurs roar and yell. 1678, John Phillips, Maronides:
    • Where e're I went on Land or water / Hee'd make a shift to follow after. / Neither had he flincht a foot, had fates / Made it rain down dogs and cats 1672, Maurice Atkins, Minor Burlesques and Travesties:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
rains dogs and cats Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
raining dogs and cats Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rained dogs and cats Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rained dogs and cats Tense=Past lexicographic