Meanings
comparative more snowproof · superlative most snowproof
- 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 Tricks2 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, TitanCare 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
present singular third person snowproofs · participle present snowproofing · participle past snowproofed · past snowproofed
- transitiveTo make resistant to snow.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sneygʷʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*snóygʷʰos
- Proto-Germanic*snaiwaz
- Proto-West Germanic*snaiw
- Old Englishsnāw
- Middle Englishsnow
- Englishsnow
- Englishsnowproof
Translations
Dutch sneeuwbestendig
- sneeuwbestendigresistant to snow
Finnish lumenkestävä
- lumenkestäväresistant to snow
Cite this entry
snowproof. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowproof
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