Send-her-down-hughie Definition

interjection

(Australia) An appeal for continued rain, invoked when it comes after a long drought. [From 1912.]

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Origin of Send-her-down-hughie

  • Hughie (“diminutive of Hugh, a male give name”) is a god of rain, addressed as an ordinary person.

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