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blizzardy

blizzardy

1 5.7
Weather with very heavy snow and strong wind that makes travel dangerous
  • adjective
  • /ˈblɪzərdi/
  • UK
: nevado
  • The children were excited to play outside in the blizzardy weather, making snowmen and having snowball fights.

Examples

  • We huddled inside, watching the blizzardy storm rage outside the window with howling winds and falling snow.

  • Another recollection: one particularly cold, blizzardy night, Flint brought in a copy of some literary quarterly I forget which one and thrust it in front of our faces.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • She tried, but her mouth seemed to have gotten locked, and her hand was on the outside of her mouth without a key to it, only the spoonful of blizzardy cream of wheat, like melting snow.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Due to the blizzardy conditions, the school decided to cancel classes for the day.

Synonyms

wintry
vsblizzardy
11 3.5

Cold and bleak with snow or strong wind

is much more extreme with heavy snow and very strong winds
wintery
vsblizzardy
2 1.8

Having cold weather with snow and strong wind

is more focused on severe storms with heavy snow and strong winds

How Severe

blizzardy
  • UK
1 5.7
stormy
38 1.0
windy
75 1.0
breezy
8 1.3
calm
680 1.0

Surface Forms

blizzardy positive

Morphology

blizzardy = blizzard (transparent) = blizzard + y

Formed by adding the productive adjective-forming suffix '-y' to 'blizzard', meaning 'characterized by a blizzard', which is directly derivable.

Etymology

Blizzardy comes from blizzard, a word that first meant a sudden, violent 'blow' or 'blast', and the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'like'. So blizzardy describes weather that is 'like' a blizzard, with heavy snow and strong wind.