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English

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WOTD – 24 December 2024

Etymology 1

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Snow(nounetymology 1 sense 1) inVictoria,Australia, at about 350metreselevation. Outside certainmountainous regions, snow is rare in Australia.

    Thenoun is derived fromMiddle Englishsnaw,snou,snow(“snow; accumulation of snow; snowfall; snowstorm; whiteness”),[1] fromOld Englishsnāw(“snow”), fromProto-West Germanic*snaiw(“snow”), fromProto-Germanic*snaiwaz(“snow”),[2] fromProto-Indo-European*snóygʷʰos(“snow”), from*sneygʷʰ-(“to snow”).

    Theverb is derived fromMiddle Englishsnouen(“to snow; (figurative) to shower”), fromsnou,snow(noun) (see above)[3][4] +-en(suffix forming theinfinitive of verbs).[5]DisplacedOld Englishsnīwan, whenceEnglishsnew(obsolete).

    Verbetymology 1 sense 2.3.2 (“to convince or hoodwink (someone)”) probably refers to a person being blinded or confused by a snowstorm.

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    Noun

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    snow (countable anduncountable,pluralsnows)

    2. (uncountable) Thepartlyfrozen,crystallinestate ofwater thatfalls from theatmosphere asprecipitation inflakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and theaccumulation of them on theground or onobjects as awhitelayer.
      1. (countable) Aninstance of the falling of snow(etymology 1 sense 1); asnowfall; also, asnowstorm.
        We have had several heavysnows this year.
      2. (countable) Aperiod of time when snow falls; awinter.
        • 1838 October,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Earlier Poems.] Burial of the Minnisink.”, inVoices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published1839,→OCLC, stanza 4,page53:
          They sang, that by his native bowers / He stood, in the last moon of flowers, / And thirtysnows had not yet shed / Their glory on the warrior's head;[…]
        • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXII”, inIn Memoriam, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC,page37:
          The path by which we twain did go, / Which led by tracts that pleased us well, / Thro' four sweet years arose and fell, / From flower to flower, fromsnow tosnow:[…]
      3. (countable) An accumulation orspread of snow.
    3. Somethingresembling snow(etymology 1 sense 1) inappearance orcolor.
      1. (countable, cooking) Adish orcomponent of a dish resembling snow, especially onemade bywhippingegg whites untilcreamy.
        applesnow    lemonsnow
      2. (uncountable)
        1. The white color of snow.
          snow: 
        2. (figurative)Clusters of whiteflowers.
          • 1859,George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Workshop”, inAdam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London:William Blackwood and Sons,→OCLC, book first,pages1–2:
            A scent of pine-wood from a tent-like pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summersnow close to the open window opposite;[…]
        4. (figurative) Themovingpattern ofrandomdotsseen on aradar ortelevisionscreen, etc., when notransmissionsignal is beingreceived or when there isinterference.
          Synonym:shash
          Near-synonym:static
          • 1977,John Cheever,Falconer (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.:Alfred A[braham] Knopf,→ISBN,page209:
            I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a littlesnow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this set in for a new one. They don't make them like this anymore, he said. He got rid of thesnow and all he charged me was two dollars.
        5. (figurative)Sea foam;sea spray.
        6. (figurative)Also in theplural: whitehair on an (older)person'shead.
        7. (figurative, poetic) Whitemarble.
          • 1848,Philip James Bailey, “Proëm”, inFestus: A Poem, 3rd edition, London:William Pickering,→OCLC,page vii:
            Ere now marmoreal floods had spread their couch / Of perdurablesnow, or granite wrought / Its skyward impulse from earth's hearth of fire / Up to insanest heights.
        8. (figurative, slang)Money, especiallysilvercoins.
        9. (figurative, slang, dated) Whitelinen which has beenwashed.
        10. (chemistry)Chiefly with adescriptiveword: asubstance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozencarbon dioxide.
          • 2008,Neal Asher, “Alien Archaeology”, inThe Gabble and Other Stories, London:Tor,→ISBN,page144:
            Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂snow towards the gates of the Arena.
        11. (marine biology)Clipping ofmarine snow(“sinking organicdetritus in the ocean”).
          • 2012,Caspar Henderson, “Sea Butterfly”, inThe Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary, 1st American edition, Chicago, Ill.; London:University of Chicago Press, published2013,→ISBN, marginal note,page286:
            Lower down, in the 95 per cent of the ocean where light does not penetrate, many living things feed on ‘marine snow’, the steady drizzle of particles of dead matter, whitish in colour, gradually sinking from the euphotic zone above. Other animals then feed on the ‘snow’ eaters.
        13. (uncountable, slang) Powdercocaine.
          Synonyms:blow,nose candy;see alsoThesaurus:cocaine
          Coordinate terms:rock cocaine,crack rock
        14. (slang, less frequently) Anopiate powder, whetherheroin ormorphine.
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    Translations
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    partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; falling of such flakes; accumulation of them as a white layer
    instance of the falling of snow—see alsosnowfall
    snowstorm—seesnowstorm
    period of time when snow falls—seewinter
    accumulation or spread of snow
    something resembling snow in appearance or color
    • Finnish:lumi (fi)
    • Macedonian:please add this translation if you can
    dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy
    • Finnish:lumi (fi)
    • Macedonian:please add this translation if you can
    white color of snow
    clusters of white flowers
    moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference
    sea foam—seeseafoam
    sea spray—seeseaspray
    white hair on an (older) person’s head
    • Finnish:valkohapsi
    • Macedonian:please add this translation if you can
    white marble—seemarble
    money, specifically silver coins—seemoney
    white linen which has been washed—seelinen
    substance other than water resembling snow when frozen
    • Finnish:lumi (fi)
    • Macedonian:please add this translation if you can
    clipping of marine snow—seemarine snow
    cocaine—see alsococaine
    heroin—seeheroin
    morphine—seemorphine
    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
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    Verb

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    snow (third-person singular simple presentsnows,present participlesnowing,simple pastsnowedor(dialectal)snew,past participlesnowedor(dialectal)snewor(dialectal)snown)

    A video showing it snowing(verbetymology 1 sense 1) inHockenheim,Germany.
    2. (intransitive, impersonal)Preceded by thedummy subjectit: to havesnow(nounetymology 1 sense 1)fall from theatmosphere.
      It issnowing.    It started tosnow.
      • 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e.,John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, inLesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […],[London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns,→OCLC, 3rd boke,folio ccclxv, verso, column 2; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972,→OCLC:
        In wynter whan itſnoweth it is good ſyttynge by a good fyre:[…]
      • 1841 February–November,Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 16.”, inMaster Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London:Chapman & Hall, […],→OCLC,page21:
        Then there was the watch with staff and lanthorn crying the hour, and the kind of weather; and those who woke up at his voice and turned them round in bed, were glad to hear it rained, orsnowed, or blew, or froze, for very comfort's sake.
      • 1945 July (date written), “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”,Sammy Cahn (lyrics),Jule Styne (music), performed byVaughn Monroe, Camden, N.J.:RCA Victor, published1945,→OCLC:
        Oh! the weather outside is frightful / But the fire is so delightful / And since we've no place to go, / Let itsnow! Let itsnow! Let itsnow!
        The score was published asLet It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, New York, N.Y.: Edwin H. Morris & Company,1945,→OCLC.
      1. (also figurative) Of athing: to fall like snow.
    3. (transitive)
      1. Tocause (something) to fall like snow.
      2. Tocover orscatter (aplace or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
        • 1635 November 8 (first performance; Gregorian calendar; published1635),Thomas Heywood, “Londini Sinus Salutis, or, Londons Harbour of Health, and Happinesse. […]. The Speech ofMars.”, inThe Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood […], volume IV, London: John Pearson […], published1874,→OCLC,page295:
          Even the Horſe wee ride /Vnſhod, would founder, who takes greateſt pride, / When the moſtcurb'd, and playing with thebit, / Heeſnowes the ground[with froth from his mouth], and doth theSpurre forgit.
        • a.1823 (date written),Homer, “Hymn to Mercury. Translated from the Greek of Homer.”, inPercy Bysshe Shelley, transl., edited byMary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley,Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] forJohn and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published1824,→OCLC, stanza XCIV,page326:
          There are threeFates, three virgin Sisters, who / Rejoicing in their wind-outspeeding wings, / Their heads with floursnowed over white and new, / Sit in a vale round whichParnassus flings / Its circling skirts—[…]
      3. (figurative)
        1. To cause (hair) toturnwhite; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
          • 1608,[Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second Weeke, […]. Noah. […].] The Colonies. The III. Part of the II. Day of the II. Week.”, inJosuah Sylvester, transl.,Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes[and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published1611,→OCLC,page355:
            Ah, courteousEngland, thy kinde arms I ſee / VVide-stretched out to ſaue and vvelcom me. / Thou (tender Mother) vvilt not ſuffer Age / Toſnovve my locks inForrein Pilgrimage:[…]
        3. (originally US, slang) Toconvince orhoodwink (someone), especially bypresentingconfusinginformation or throughflattery.
          1. (poker) Tobluff (anopponent) indraw poker byplaying ahand which has novalue, or byrefusing todraw anycards.
            • 1999 May,Mason Malmuth, “Free Bets and Other Topics”, inGambling Theory and Other Topics, Las Vegas, Nev.: [Creel Printers for]Two Plus Two Publishing,→ISBN, part 2 (Theory in Practice),page84:
              [T]he Adventurer knew that despite what[Mike] Caro had said, there was a good chance that he was "snowing" (playing a hand that had no value and could win only if his opponent threw his cards away). Notice that this creates a dilemma for the Adventurer. If he bets and Caro is on a snow, he will lose a bet, but if he checks and his opponent is not on a snow, he also will lose a bet.
        4. (US, slang, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to be under theeffect of adrug; todope, todrug.
    Conjugation
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    Conjugation ofsnow
    infinitive(to)snow
    present tensepast tense
    1st-personsingularsnowsnowed
    2nd-personsingularsnow,snowest†snowed,snowedst†
    3rd-personsingularsnows,snoweth†snowed
    pluralsnow
    subjunctivesnowsnowed
    imperativesnow—
    participlessnowingsnowed
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    Translations
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    have snow fall from the atmosphere
    (intransitive) of a thing: to fall like snow; (transitive) to cause (something) to fall like snow
    to cover or scatter (a place) with, or as if with, snow
    to cause (hair) to turn white; to cause (someone) to have white hair
    • Finnish:valkaista (fi)
    • Macedonian:please add this translation if you can
    to convince or hoodwink (someone)—see alsoconvince,‎hoodwink
    to bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards
    • Finnish:bluffata (fi)
    • Macedonian:please add this translation if you can
    to cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug—seedope,‎drug

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    Etymology 2

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    A 1759 painting of a navalsnow byCharles Brooking.[n 1]

    Borrowed fromDutchsnauw,snaauw, orLow Germansnau; further etymology uncertain,[6] possibly fromLow Germansnau(“beak”), related toMiddle Low Germansnute(“snout”) (whenceEnglishsnout), fromProto-West Germanic*snūt(“snout”), fromProto-Germanic*snūtaz(“snout”), possiblyimitative.

    Noun

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    snow (pluralsnows)

    1. (nautical, historical) Asquare-riggedsailing vessel similar to abrig formerlyused as awarship, with aforemast, amainmast, and atrysailmastimmediatelyabaft (behind) the mainmast.
      Coordinate term:brig
      • 1763, Stephen Theodore Janssen [i.e.,Sir Stephen Janssen, 4th Baronet],Smuggling Laid Open in All Its Extensive and Destructive Branches; […], London: […] W. Owen, and W. Nicoll,→OCLC,page263:
        An ESTIMATE made of the Annual Expence of aSnow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men (Officers included) Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, beſides Swivels.
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    square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig

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    1. ^From the collection of theNational Maritime Museum inLondon,England,United Kingdom.

    References

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    1. ^“snou,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
    2. ^“snow,n.1”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, December 2024;“snow,n.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
    3. ^“snouen,v.(1)”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
    4. ^“snow,v.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, March 2024;“snow,v.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
    5. ^“-en,suf.(3)”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
    6. ^“snow,n.2”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, December 2024.

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    Middle English

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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      FromOld Englishsnāw, fromProto-West Germanic*snaiw, fromProto-Germanic*snaiwaz.

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      Noun

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      snow (pluralsnowes)

      1. snow(frozenwater asprecipitation, either whilefalling or oncelanded)
      2. snow-white(a snowy white)
      3. Thetemperature where snowappears.
      4. Ablanket of snow; asnowing.

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      Spanish

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      Etymology

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      Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsnow, fromEnglishsnowboarding.

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /esˈno/[ezˈno]
      • IPA(key): /esˈnou/[ezˈnou̯]
      • Syllabification:snow

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      snow m (uncountable)

      1. snowboarding

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      Further reading

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      • Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “snow”, inDiccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

      Yola

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      Noun

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      snow

      1. alternative form ofsneew
        • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page96:
          An neeat wooden trenshoorès var whiter thansnow.
          And neat wooden trenchers far whiter thansnow.

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      • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page96
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