sou'wester

English

Noun

sou'wester (plural sou'westers)

1. alternative form of southwester (the wind; this is the usual spelling for the hat)
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.

2. a waterproof hat with a long brim at the back, covering the neck.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter X, p. 165, [1]

     Joe Crowe was perched in the driving-seat, clad in oil-skins and sou'-wester, crouched in the rain, clutching two iron buckets.

Translations

southwester — see southwester

waterproof hat

• Danish: sydvest c
• Dutch: zuidwester (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝtormoĉapelo
• Finnish: sydvesti (fi)
• German: Südwester (de) m
• Hungarian: viharkalap
• Irish: hata bádóra m, hata cúil m
• Lithuanian: aulaukė
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sydvest (no) m

  Nynorsk: sydvest m

• Polish: zydwestka
• Russian: зюйдве́стка (ru) f (zjujdvéstka)
• Swedish: sydväst (sv)
• Ukrainian: зюйдвестка (zjujdvestka)

References

• Oxford Dictionaries [2]