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showerable en · ADJ

Etymology

From shower + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of water: suitable for use by a person for showering.
    • True enough, one had to learn when to shower or bathe because hot or even luke warm water seldom reached our bathroom on the third floor. I learned the cycles of likely showerable water. 2018, Charles O. Jones, Now That’s Funny: A Memoir on Passing Through:
    • Perhaps one of the reasons you seldom see these systems in the U.S. is that if there were to be a leak between the heat pipe fluid—the refrigerant fluid—and the potable, drinkable, showerable water, it would be more than a little bit toxic. 2015, Bill Nye, Corey S. Powell, Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World:
    • […] there was a supply of tepid but showerable water in the morning. 2010, Brian H. Jones, Around Rakaposhi: