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

[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 :)