Many words from the winter dictionary won't become part of my vocabulary but I think I could make an exception for pruinesence. It's the beautiful white covering of frost seen on crisp winter days. A much nicer term than hoar frost, I think you will agree. It's easy to find lovely cosy words for the winter but beautiful outdoor ones are to be treasured.
These days I admire the trees at a distance. All too often the weather is too snarry for me. Snarry? Piercingly, bitingly cold. It's much colder riding on a trundle truck than walking! I will watch any snow blossoms from a distance. And that's not just me being poetic - snowflakes were called snow blossoms (at least in written English) before they were called snowflakes.
Snow flowers sounds a much better name than flakes and I’m loving your posts about winter things. This will make a good quiz question so I have saved it on my phone for a later date. Thank you, Catriona
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoy reading them - I'm enjoying writing them.
DeleteI like the term snow blossoms. I didn't realize there were so many winter-related words!
ReplyDeleteThere's plenty more where these came from!
DeleteSnow blossoms, how delightful. I collect new words too, some from blogs I read (toodle pip) and some from books like those Anthony Trollope wrote. Grand old English words, furbellow, collywobbles, bimble. When I used to write articles I would try to fit one or two in to the article.
ReplyDeleteToodle pip, collywobbles, bimble are in fairly common usage here. Furbellow in use but less so.
DeleteSnow blossoms, I love that. Just like flowers there are always some differences.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Much nicer term isn't it!
DeleteLovely photos, Mary. Snow blossoms? I like that better than snowflakes. And I would imagine it is colder on a scooter than it is walking but for me, here anyway, it has been too cold for any of it and I am thinking of going into hibernation mode until at least April. Stay safe and warm, Mary!
ReplyDeleteYes, I know wat you mean. Snow blossoms are best observed from behind glass.
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