snowproof

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adjective

Resistant to snow.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivesnowproof (comparative more snowproof, superlative most snowproof)

comparative more snowproof · superlative most snowproof

  1. Resistant to snow.

    Make a Snow Angel. What You Need: Snow (deep enough to flop into), your body (preferably covered in snowproof clothes).

    2007, Lynn Brunelle, Mama's Little Book of Tricks
    2 more examples

    ...that he looked quite like a gentleman bound on a shooting expedition, and that his friends had every reason to think he would now be snowproof.

    1847, James Hogg, Titan

    Care should be taken to make windows rain- and snowproof, and to allow opening for ventilation without letting in rain during ordinary storms.

    1915, Archer Eben Knowlton, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers
verbsnowproof (third-person singular simple present snowproofs, present participle snowproofing, simple past and past participle snowproofed)

present singular third person snowproofs · participle present snowproofing · participle past snowproofed · past snowproofed

  1. transitiveTo make resistant to snow.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sneygʷʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*snóygʷʰos
  3. Proto-Germanic*snaiwaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*snaiw
  5. Old Englishsnāw
  6. Middle Englishsnow
  7. Englishsnow
  8. Englishsnowproof

From snow + -proof.

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Translations

Dutch sneeuwbestendig
  • sneeuwbestendigresistant to snow
Finnish lumenkestävä
  • lumenkestäväresistant to snow
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Chicago

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