Friday words: Varieties of snow
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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
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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
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Date: 2019-01-31 11:55 pm (UTC)