snickersnee

Pronounced: SNIH-kuhr-snee, noun

Notes: This word made me think of Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky”


Yesterday’s word

The word pogonip is “a dense winter fog having ice particles”

First usage

Our word came into English in the mid-1800s

Background / Comments

Our word came from the Shoshone word payinappih (cloud).

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Christian, lover-of-knowledge, Texan, and other things.

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