venir Élver

Literally, “to have Élver to come”. Élver is a clipping of el vergazo (“the shitload”); from the phrase venir el vergazo de agua ("to have the shitload of water to come").

• IPA^(key): /beˌniɾ ˈelbeɾ/ [beˌniɾ ˈel.β̞eɾ]
• Syllabification: ve‧nir Él‧ver

venir Élver (impersonal, third-person singular present viene Élver, third-person singular preterite vino Élver, past participle venido Élver)

1. (colloquial, humorous, intransitive, impersonal, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua) to start raining

   No salgas porque ahí viene Elver.

   Don't go outside, because it's going to start raining.

   • 2000, Andrés Pavón Murillo, Recuerdos que silban y cantan en alas de mariposa, page 2:

     –Viene Elver - Grita Ñoco, vendedor de yuca de chicharrón. –¿Quién es Elver? - pregunta Tunta. –El vergazo de agua, corré que nos mojamos.

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Élver is often treated as a proper name in order to trick a person into asking ¿Quién es Élver? ("Who is Élver").

• “élver”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010