Vocabulary List for Snow Days

Linda Louise Johnson
Snowpocalypse

Large amounts of snow in such a short period of time the world as you know it ends.

Snowyclipse

When the snowbanks are so high they block out the sun.

Snowastrophe

When the snow is so bad you have a car wreck.

Snowjacking

When the snow is so treacherous to drive in you invite a complete stranger to steal your car so you won't have to drive.

Snow-do-di-o

When the snow makes you so crazy you think this a cute song lyric.

Snow way

When you think you are so clever you can say any stupid thing with "snow" in it and get a laugh.

Aftersnow

Like afterglow, but colder.

Snowdelabra

When you stick candles in the snow and light them up because no way is it a fire hazard, duh.

Snoedipus complex

When you want to marry the snow?.

Snokers

People who have to go outside the building to smoke even though no one plowed the parking lot and they're standing there in kneedeep snow and will probably get pneumonia.

Snowbulances

Emergency medical vehicles equipped with plows and sirens so they spray snow as they go to the ER.

Snifting

When snow is drifting in a desultory manner and moving itself from one snow bank to another just to make sure your front door won't open..

Snirling

When snow is swirling around in the air even though it has stopped snowing and you stupidly thought you might be able get out of your stupid driveway.

Snowpoisoning

When you make snow shakes out of polluted snow.

Snowbody

As in "snowbody knows de trubble I seen."

Snowone

The number of people you see when the stupid snowplows never show up and you can't get out of your cul de sac.

Snonely

How you feel when the snow keeps you trapped in Tinyville and you never see another human being until spring.

Snootprints

The indentations in the snow made by your boots one half a second ago now rapidly becoming oversnowed and nearly invisible.

Sneau de parfum

What you get when you stupidly leave your toiletries out in the snow.

Snodorant.

The world's coldest antiperspirant, actually freezes sweat glands.

Published by Linda Louise Johnson

Linda Louise Johnson is an animal lover, crafter and hobbyist, graphic art afficionado and veteran writer. Her work has been featured on Associated Content, Yahoo! News, and eHow as well as in Poetry Garden,...  View profile

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  • Donald Pennington2/17/2010

    Run! It's the Vocabulary Lady!

  • Patricia Sicilia2/14/2010

    Why can't people just say it was an effin lot of snow! :)

  • Sandy James2/14/2010

    This is cute!

  • Catherine Spencer2/12/2010

    Cute! :)

  • Rachelle Dawson2/11/2010

    Giggles.

  • Kim Keason2/11/2010

    Look out Webster's!!

  • John Smither2/11/2010

    Great article, very topical.

  • Allene Newberg Bilodeau2/10/2010

    Leave it to our snocabulary lady to build new words out of snow! Instead of snow men, I guess you build snords! Some of these had me snuckling my head of. Snoedipus complex?! And snoderant: it freezes your sweat glands?! Love these, Lindy Lou. Snowed in, but no writer's snock for you!

  • Bethany Marsh2/10/2010

    With over 3 feet here, I can use these terms!

  • Maria Roth2/10/2010

    Very funny. "Snow way" DID make me laugh! ;)

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