connixation

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UK/kɒnɪksˈeɪʃən/

noun

A large, smothering, and destructive blizzard.

OriginLatin nix →
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Meanings

nounconnixation (plural connixations)

plural connixations

  1. rareA large, smothering, and destructive blizzard.

    As we have never had a rainbow to assure us that the world shall not be snowed to death, I thought last night was the general connixation.

    1762, Horace Walpole, Private correspondence, page 136

Origin

  1. Latinnix“snow”
  2. Englishconnixation

Humorous alteration of conflagration, the -flagr- having been substituted with Latin nix (“snow”).

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Chicago

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