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Gender Masculine
Usage English (British, Rare), Obscure
Meaning & History
From the English noun sou'wester, a contracted form of southwester which refers to a strong wind that blows from the southwest and brings warm air from the tropics to the British Isles, often causing rain as it cools while passing over the sea. This has been borne by at least two individuals; Charles W. Bardsley notes in Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (1880) that an English boy was given the name Sou'wester at his baptism on January 10, 1880, after an uncle who was born at sea in a south-westerly gale and received the same name.