snowed

snow

[snoh]
noun
1.
Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
2.
these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface.
3.
the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall.
4.
something resembling a layer of these flakes in whiteness, softness, or the like: the snow of fresh linen.
5.
Literary.
a.
white blossoms.
b.
the white color of snow.
6.
Slang. cocaine or heroin.
7.
white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal. Compare hash1 ( def 5 ).
verb (used without object)
8.
to send down snow; fall as snow.
9.
to descend like snow.
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verb (used with object)
10.
to let fall as or like snow.
11.
Slang.
a.
to make an overwhelming impression on: The view really snowed them.
b.
to persuade or deceive: She was snowed into believing everything.
Verb phrases
12.
snow under,
a.
to cover with or bury in snow.
b.
to overwhelm with a larger amount of something than can be conveniently dealt with.
c.
to defeat overwhelmingly.
Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English snāw; cognate with Dutch sneeuw, German Schnee, Old Norse snǣr, Gothic snaiws, Latin nix (genitive nivis), Greek níps (accusative nípha), OCS sněgŭ; (v.) Middle English snowen, derivative of the noun; replacing Middle English snewen, Old English snīwan; cognate with Old High German snīwan (German schneien), Middle Low German, Middle Dutch snīen

Related forms
snow·less, adjective
snow·like, adjective
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snow (snəʊ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
1.  precipitation from clouds in the form of flakes of ice crystals formed in the upper atmosphereRelated: niveous
2.  a layer of snowflakes on the ground
3.  a fall of such precipitation
4.  anything resembling snow in whiteness, softness, etc
5.  the random pattern of white spots on a television or radar screen, produced by noise in the receiver and occurring when the signal is weak or absent
6.  slang cocaine
7.  See carbon dioxide snow
 
—vb (often with it as subject)
8.  (intr; with it as subject) to be the case that snow is falling
9.  (tr; usually passive, foll by over, under, in, or up) to cover or confine with a heavy fall of snow
10.  to fall or cause to fall as or like snow
11.  slang (US), (Canadian) (tr) See snow job to deceive or overwhelm with elaborate often insincere talk
12.  be snowed under to be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
 
Related: niveous
 
[Old English snāw; related to Old Norse snjōr, Gothic snaiws, Old High German snēo, Greek nipha]
 
'snowless
 
—adj
 
'snowlike
 
—adj

Snow (snəʊ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
C(harles) P(ercy), Baron. 1905--80, British novelist and physicist. His novels include the series Strangers and Brothers (1949--70)

snowed (snəʊd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—adj
slang under the influence of narcotic drugs

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Word Origin & History

snow
O.E. snaw "snow," from P.Gmc. *snaiwaz (cf. O.S., O.H.G. sneo, O.Fris., M.L.G. sne, M.Du. snee, Du. sneeuw, Ger. Schnee, O.N. snjor, Goth. snaiws "snow"), from PIE *sniegwh-/*snoigwho- (cf. Gk. nipha, L. nix (gen. nivis), O.Ir. snechta, Welsh nyf, Lith. sniegas, O.Prus. snaygis, O.C.S. snegu, Rus. snieg',
Slovak sneh "snow"). The cognate in Skt., snihyati, came to mean "he gets wet." As slang for "cocaine" it is attested from 1914. Snowshoe first recorded 1674; snowflake is 1734; snowplow is from 1792, first mentioned in a New Hampshire context; snowman is from 1827; snowmobile first attested 1931, in ref. to Admiral Byrd's expedition.

snow
c.1300, replacing O.E. sniwan, which would have yielded modern snew (which existed as a parallel form until 17c. and, in Yorkshire, even later), from the root of snow (n.).
"Also þikke as snow þat snew,
Or al so hail þat stormes blew."
[Robert Mannyng of Brunne, transl. Wace's "Chronicle," c.1330]
The figurative sense of "overwhelm" is 1880, Amer.Eng., in phrase to snow (someone) under. Snow job "strong, persistent persuasion in a dubious cause" is World War II armed forces slang, probably from the same metaphoric image.
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Science Dictionary
snow   (snō)  Pronunciation Key 
Precipitation that falls to earth in the form of ice crystals that have complex branched hexagonal patterns. Snow usually falls from stratus and stratocumulus clouds, but it can also fall from cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds.
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Slang Dictionary

snow definition


  1. n.
    deceitful talk; deception. : All I heard for an hour was snow. Now, what's the truth?
  2. tv.
    to attempt to deceive someone. (See also snowed.) : You can try to snow me if you want, but I'm onto your tricks.
  3. n.
    and snowball; snowflakes; snow stuff. a powdered or crystalline narcotic: morphine, heroin, or cocaine. (Now almost always the latter.) : The price of snow stuff has come down a lot as South America exports more of it.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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snowed definition


  1. mod.
    deceived. : He was one snowed coach. He still doesn't know what really happened.
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Bible Dictionary

Snow definition


Common in Palestine in winter (Ps. 147:16). The snow on the tops of the Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the whole year. The word is frequently used figuratively by the sacred writers (Job 24:19; Ps. 51:7; 68:14; Isa. 1:18). It is mentioned only once in the historical books (2 Sam. 23:20). It was "carried to Tyre, Sidon, and Damascus as a luxury, and labourers sweltering in the hot harvest-fields used it for the purpose of cooling the water which they drank (Prov. 25:13; Jer. 18:14). No doubt Herod Antipas, at his feasts in Tiberias, enjoyed also from this very source the modern luxury of ice-water."

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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