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Kurt’s Blog: Bring Back These Old Cold Weather Terms…NOW!

Found a list of 19 words that will help us get through the polar vortex…of which we only have, like, what … 12 hours left? Then, what….shorts on Sunday!?

YES…Watching the Super Bowl in shorts.

  1. Ice LegsThe winter equivalent to having one’s sea-legs while out on the water.
  2. Crule – Shiver with cold    
  3. Meggle – “To trudge laboriously through mud or snow” 
  4. Aquaboban 18th century word for icicle
  5. Snow-Bonesthe lines of snow or ice left at the sides of roads after the rest of the snow has melted
  6. Moble – to wrap your head with a hood
  7. Mufflementsthick, warm, insulating clothes
  8. Hapwarm  all-covering items of clothings, work to keep in the heat and keep out the cold
  9. Hogamadogwhen you roll a snowball through snow, and it gets bigger and bigger
  10. Moorkavie – a heavy snowfall or shower of rain.

Quick Note: Grammerly was NOT happy with these words at all. So many squiggly, red lines! 

We need to start re-using these words…and now I know where JK Rowling got all her inspiration for Harry Potter from.

Meggle? That’s nearly muggle.

Hapwarm…Hogamadog….Hufflepuff…Hogwarts?

I mean, c’mon.

 

 

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