#lexigraph: wintry words
greetings wordwatchers
as the knights draw in and the daze get short, here is a small collection of some interesting words to use over the course of this winter:
● boreal: adj. (lit. northern) of the climate or winds of the north; cold
● replete: adj. filled (with food)
● gelid: adj. frosty; extremely cold
● brumal: adj. of or belonging to winter (see hiemal)
● hiemal: adj. of or belonging to winter (see brumal)
● graupel: n. precipitation of a consistency between that of hail and snow
● congelatio: n. frost-bite
● immure: v. to entomb; to fortify (e.g. ‘we immured ourselves with duvets by the fire’)
● cwtch: [pron. kʊtʃ (rhymes with butch)] n. v. (from Welsh: lit. hiding place) cuddle
● perniosis: n. chillblains
● squally: adj. threatening; (of cloth) defective; (of weather) stormy, violent
● gimcrack: adj. showy, unsubstantial (e.g. ‘their Christmas party is gimcrack’)