Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see under scum n.

(US teen) to masturbate in the shower.

2003

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1. an unimpressive group of people; occas. an individual.

1941		‘Rows and Rows and Rows’ in C.H. Ward-Jackson Airman’s Song Book (1945) 139: We’re a shower of rotten skates.
1942		G. Kersh Nine Lives of Bill Nelson 13: I’ve seen him with some of the lousiest showers of rooks you ever saw in your life.
1942		‘At Enugu, Gold Coast’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 53: We’re a shower of bastards.
1943		R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 86: This bloke had a uniform on, and a shower of mates for witnesses. [Ibid.] 116: You’re always doing it, you shower of tom tit.
1956		J. Osborne Look Back in Anger Act I: Your friends – there’s a shower for you.
1958		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 20: Right, all you shower.
1959		W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: The biggest shower since the flood, that’s you. Fred Karno’s not in it.
1962		B. McGhee Cut and Run (1963) 175: They’re a shower o’ ‘chanty-rasslers’, an’ he’s the biggest layaboot o’ the lot.
1970		C. Brown Down All the Days 48: Get off your arse and get me a proper meal and me after slaving all day for you and your shower of shitty orphans!
1973		B.S. Johnson All Bull 234: Yo’ don’t want that Shower of fucking nut-cases in t’barrack-room whipping owt of what yo’ve been issued with.
1979		F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret 25: Yez shower of shites, and yer mothers before yez!
1983		T. Paulin ‘Martello’ in Liberty Tree 51: To hear them one’d think / that instead of being lumbered / with a rotten shower of prize idiots / this was God’s own acre we’re holding.
1987		(con. 1920s) L. Redmond Emerald Square 190: My rebellious little heart rejoiced to hear some Liberties drunk give vent to his feelings. ‘Them crowd a’ fucks ... Them shower a’ whore’s bastards up in the mountains!’.
1988		J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 72: A fucking shower of cunts. My sister would beat the lot of them.
1990		R. Doyle Snapper 146: I’m not goin’ to listen to them anymore. – They’re only a shower o’ shites. They’re not worth it.
1994		J. O’Connor Secret World of the Irish Male (1995) 207: I’ll dance the whole fookin lorra yez into the bleedin’ carpet, yiz shower of fookin bollixes.
2001		G. Coughlan Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Shower of savages (n): a crowd, out to have a raucous time but being a bit of a nuisance!
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 98: We’re waiting on the platform when this little shower of tykes starts looking over.
2004		C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 99: She had thrown in her lot with the clean-up TV shower.

2. a pile of second-rate things.

1945		Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 17 Nov. 10/3: What a shower – expression of disgust.
1952		C. Harris Death of a Barrow Boy 11: Take a look at this load. Crockery! Ever see a shower like it!? Wouldn’t a give it to a orphans’ ’ome before the war.
2005		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 32: What a shower of shit it all is.

3. a term of abuse aimed at a single person.

1949		M. Leigh Cross of Fire 71: You bat-eyed, buttock-brained [...] shiftless, simpering shower!
1959		S. Gibbons Pink Front Door 23: Hasn’t he lain down yet? He is a little shower.
1966		O. Norton School of Liars 63: I’m of finer stuff, personally. I don’t know why I waste my time playing with a shower like you.
1973		‘P. Alding’ Field of Fire 123: ‘You’re a right shower,’ said Welland.
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak 128: Shower – a worthless or tiresome person.
1990		R. Doyle Snapper 10: That’s an awful lookin’ shower he hangs around with.
2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 shower (.... of shit) n. Term ‘borrowed’ from the Army and used to describe an individual or group of people felt to be beneath contempt. In modern use, the phrase has been sanitized by restricting it to use of the first word. i.e. ‘You’re a right shower!’.