Reply To: Oichel Nefesh on Yom Tov

This from Webster’s online.

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English shour, from Old English sc?r; akin to Old High German sc?r shower, storm, Latin caurus northwest wind

Date: before 12th century

1 a : a fall of rain of short duration b : a similar fall of sleet, hail, or snow

2 : something resembling a rain shower ; especially : a fall of meteors which belong to a single group and whose trails appear to originate at the same point in space

3 : a party given by friends who bring gifts often of a particular kind

4 : a bath in which water is showered on the body; also : the apparatus that provides a shower

I call your attention to #4. Per that definition, I would say that the only requirement to be called a shower is that you must get wet. Anything above that is lifnim mi’shuras hadin. And we all know that nobody here is looking for extra chumros.