Friday words: Varieties of snow

[med_cat]

Fun bonus fact: It is Scots, not Eskimos, who have the highest number of different words for snow (421 vs 50 words).
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A few Scottish words:

Feefle: swirling snow

Spitters: small drops of wet snow

Skelf: a large snowflake

Dreich: really nasty, gloomy, dismal, wet weather.

            Example: "We were so looking forward to our vacation, but the weather was such gray dreich, we never left the house."

And an English word, from Kent:

Aquabob: an icicle

Comments

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Do you have a citation for that 421 words for snow?

[med_cat]

I've seen it in a few sources; here's one:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34323967

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Interesting that you would choose to do this on Robert Burns Day! As a Scot, I can say there's a lot of snow there and no love from me for i

[med_cat]

Hehe, a happy coincidence ;)

And true! Have you lived in Scotland at some previous time, then?

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

My father was born there, but I didn't visit until 2012. However, we were raised with a strong sense of who we were... at least on our Scottish side. It wasn't until I got older that my French half started rearing its head. :P

[med_cat]

I see :)