Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

snowicane

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: snow-icane
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hurricane or other such tropical storm which precipitates snow.

Example Sentences

"The giant storm — dubbed a “Snowicane” — was coming up the East Coast like a steamroller in overdrive."
"The snowicane that had raged for three days and three nights had left him as bad off as the pheasants, and it wasn't any easier for him to allay his hunger pains in the vast wasteland of snow than it was for them."
"… it’s nice to think about baseball in the calm before the snow-ricane we are about to allegedly have."
"It's pretty apparent that Craig the weatherman was not in my Brooklyn neighborhood because we had a full-blown snowicane."

Etymology

Blend of snow + hurricane.

Inflected Forms

snowicanes (plural) snowricane (alternative) snow-ricane (alternative)

Questions

What does snowicane mean?: A hurricane or other such tropical storm which precipitates snow.
Where does snowicane come from?: Blend of snow + hurricane.

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