Rainburn

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A notional burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to heavy rain. humorous, uncountable

    "It started with neck and upper body sores that looked a bit like rainburn - but usually they had only two or three of them."

Example

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"It started with neck and upper body sores that looked a bit like rainburn - but usually they had only two or three of them."

Etymology

From rain + burn, by analogy with sunburn.

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