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.
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41 Comments
Post a CommentRun! It's the Vocabulary Lady!
Why can't people just say it was an effin lot of snow! :)
This is cute!
Cute! :)
Giggles.
Look out Webster's!!
Great article, very topical.
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!
With over 3 feet here, I can use these terms!
Very funny. "Snow way" DID make me laugh! ;)