http://windlegends.org/windnames.htm
www.cloudwall.com
For inclusion, I looked for occurrence at two different sources - either on both of the websites above, or on one of them, with further confirmation by dictionary or google.
None of the usual links have anything on this. Where is it from? I got caught in a dust devil the other day in downtown Albuquerque. Which is the desert, technically. I'm wondering if this word is a cool synonym for that, or something more dramatic. Plus -- how the heck do you pronounce it?
http://windlegends.org/windnames.htm
www.cloudwall.com
For inclusion, I looked for occurrence at two different sources - either on both of the websites above, or on one of them, with further confirmation by dictionary or google.
None of the usual links have anything on this. Where is it from? I got caught in a dust devil the other day in downtown Albuquerque. Which is the desert, technically. I'm wondering if this word is a cool synonym for that, or something more dramatic. Plus -- how the heck do you pronounce it?
a whirlwind in the desert; this word may be a candidate for one of my favorite words of all time