cloudbust

English

Etymology

cloud +‎ bust

Noun

cloudbust (plural cloudbusts)

(dialectal) A cloudburst.
- 1929, Boys' Life (June 1929, page 72)
  A sudden cloudbust up in the hills during the night […] swelled the creek
- 1949, George Palmer Putnam, Hickory shirt: a novel of Death Valley in 1850
  "Setting up for a cloudbust," Hickory said. "She don't aim to hit right around here, anyway."

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