sou'-ˈwester
Also sou'wester, sou-wester.
[Reduced form of south-wester n.]
1. = south-wester n. 1.
| 1838 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 157 Frost ended in a set in of dirty sou'-wester, with a constant batch of wind and rain. 1894 W. E. Norris St. Ann's I. 180 One of those steady, relentless sou'-westers, accompanied by sheets of rain. |
2. = south-wester n. 2.
| 1837 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 130, I shipped my sou-wester and went fishing. 1848 Dickens Dombey xxxii, He also provided Rob with a species of hat,..which is usually termed a sou'wester. 1870 Thornbury Tour rd. Eng. II. xxviii. 239 [The] men have their shiny-yellow sou'-westers pulled down over their brows. |
b. attrib., = south-wester n. 2 b.
| 1842 Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 13/1 When the captain comes down again, in a sou'-wester hat tied under his chin, and a pilot-coat. 1860 C. A. Collins Eyewitness 120 It is a neighbourhood of canvas trousers and sou'-wester hats. |
3. Naut. (See quot., and cf. nor'-wester 2.)
| 1848 B. D. Walsh Aristoph. 40 note, Half-and-half was equivalent to what seamen call a sou'-wester, that is to say, half rum and the rest rum-and-water. |
Hence sou'-ˈwestered a., wearing a sou'-wester.
| 1891 Harper's Mag. July 179/1 That unseasonably sou'-westered man at the wheel. |