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snowy, a. and n.|ˈsnəʊɪ|
Forms: α. 1 snawiᵹ, 3 snawi, 5, Sc. 8– snawy, 8 snawie. β. 6–7 snowie, snowey, 6– snowy.
[f. snow n.1 Cf. Fris. snieich, MDu. sneeich, sneeuwich (Du. sneeuwig), OS. snêgig (MLG. snêyg, snyig), MHG. schnêig (G. schneeig), Sw. snöig, snögig.]
A. adj.
1. Of weather, time, etc.: Characterized by the presence or prevalence of snow.
c1000Saxon Leechd. III. 274 Se feorða heafod wind..blæwð norðan cealde & snawlic [v.r. snawiᵹ]. 1600Pory tr. Leo's Africa ix. 333 It ouerfloweth not but in rainie and snowie weather. 1635Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 155 Your experienced husbandman desireth that the winter may be cold and snowie. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xviii. 133 It was a Snowy day. 1701O. Heywood Diaries (1885) IV. 175 This is a snowy morning. 1748T. Smith Jrnl. (1849) 270 A cold, snowy, uncomfortable month. 1800Campbell Ode to Winter 53 Milder yet thy snowy breezes Pour on yonder tented shores. 1830Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 143 Let the weather be sunny or snowy. 1884E. P. Roe Nat. Ser. Story vii, The snowiest day of winter.
2. Composed of melted snow; consisting, formed, or made of snow.
αa1240Sawles Warde in O.E. Hom. I. 251 Þer is..toðes hechelunge iþe snawi weattres. 1483Cath. Angl. 346/2 Snawy, niueus. 1785Burns Addr. to Deil xii, When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord.
β1565Cooper Thesaurus, Niueus liquor, snowy water. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 862 The lower Mountaines..haue more Giantly ouer-lookers, with Snowie lockes and Cloudie lookes. 1730Bailey (fol.), Sleetiness,..snowy Rain. 1754Gray Pleasure 26 The sullen year Saw the snowy whirlwind fly. 1784Cowper Task v. 98 On the flood, Indurated and fixt, the snowy weight Lies undissolv'd. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. clxxxi, As the snowy flake, They melt. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xii. 90 The Glacier..thrust through the black pines its snowy tongue.
3. a. Covered with snow; abounding in snow.
1548Elyot, Niualia loca, snowy places. 1592Soliman & Pers. iv. i. 83 Neck, whiter then the snowie Apenines. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 98 We continually did see the snowy toppes of those Mountaines. 1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. iii. (1818) 137 Thence to Ayscarth, from a mountaine..cliffs steep and snowy..saw I. a1700Evelyn Diary 2 Nov. 1644, Monte Mantuamiato..peeping above any clowds with its snowy head. 1784Cowper Task v. 7 His slanting ray Slides ineffectual down the snowy vale. 1847Tennyson Princ. iv. 2 The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. ii. (1894) 49 The snowy ranges of California..seem to be unpleasantly bare and chill.
transf.1648J. Beaumont Psyche xiii. xlv, That fire of leacherous rage Which burnt ev'n in their cold and snowy age.
b. Of the picture on a television screen: affected with snow (snow n.1 5 f).
1959Levy & Frankel Television Servicing xiv. 442 The picture may become weak and snowy. 1976H. Kemelman Wednesday Rabbi got Wet xxiii. 73 She turned the set on... There was a lot of static, and the picture wavered and became snowy.
4. a. Of or resembling the pure white colour of snow; snow-white, niveous.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. x. 48 That godly aged Sire, With snowy lockes. Ibid. iii. i. 38 Which staines his snowy skin with hatefull hew. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. v. 50 So shewes a Snowy Doue trooping with Crowes. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Amb. 16 Many antient Men, venerable for their long snowy beards. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 594 Ev'n though a snowy Ram thou shalt behold. 1725Pope Odyss. xxiv. 93 We then collect thy snowy bones. 1786Burns To Mountain Daisy v, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 21 Towering caps of the snowiest muslin, enriched with lace. 1882Garden 9 Sept. 224/3 A charming little plant..with dense tufts of snowy blooms.
transf.1646Bp. Hall Poems 95 There did he loose his snowy Innocence.
b. Used to qualify white or whiteness.
1785Pennant Arct. Zool. II. 549 Of a snowy whiteness. 1791Cowper Yardley Oak 128 A splinter'd stump bleach'd to a snowy white. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. l, Stained rotten canvas looked a snowy white. 1859Jephson Brittany v. 50 That snowy whiteness which I so much admired in the Breton caps. 1883Longman's Mag. July 308 Some Alpine buttercups are snowy-white.
5. a. In the specific names of birds or animals (see quots.).
1829Griffith tr. Cuvier VIII. 557 *Snowy Auk, Mormon Glacialis.
1895Funk's Stand. Dict., *Snowy egret or heron, an entirely white egret (Ardea candidissima) ranging from New York to Chile.
1829Griffith tr. Cuvier VI. 44 *Snowy Falcon, Falco niveus.
1827Ibid. V. 265 Lepus Glacialis (*Snowy Hare).
1785Latham Gen. Synop. Birds III. i. 92 *Snowy Heron, Ardea nivea. 1813A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. VII. 120 Snowy Heron, Ardea candidissima. The Snowy Heron seems particularly fond of the salt marshes during summer. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 267 Little White Egret. Snowy Heron... Plumage always entirely white. 1885*Snowy lemming [see lemming 2].
1781Latham Gen. Synop. Birds I. i. 132 *Snowy Owl... The whole plumage is white as snow. 1876Nature XIV. 562/1 The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens..include..two Snowy Owls (Nyctea nivea). 1895Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. IV. 162 The great snowy owl (Nyctea scandiaca) cannot be confounded with any other member of the order, being the only representative of its genus.
1777Forster Voy. round World I. 96 Its colour induced us to call it the *snowy-petrel. 1895Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. IV. 525 The snowy petrel (Pagodroma nivea).
1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 245 *Snowy Plover..; several lateral tail feathers entirely white. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v., Snowy plover, ægialites nivosus, a small ring-plover of the Pacific and Mexican Gulf coasts of the United States.
b. In names of flowers, etc.
1822Hortus Anglicus II. 392 Tussilago Nivea. Snowy Colt's-foot. 1889R. A. R. Bennett Marine Aquaria viii. 71 Snowy Anemone,..Sagartia nivea. 1901Gardener 12 Jan. 1047/3 In cultivation the Snowy Crowfoot [Ranunculus amplexicaulis] generally blooms in April or May.
c. snowy pear, the snow-pear (see snow n.1 9 d).
1884De Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 233 The snowy pears cultivated in France to make the drink called perry have become wild in the woods here and there.
6. Comb., as snowy-banded, snowy-bosomed, etc.
a1618Sylvester Cup of Consolation 10 Wks. (Grosart) II. 263 Where Snow-winged Victory doth wun. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche iii. cxviii, Pure and snowy-countnanc'd Linen. 1717Rowe Ode for New Year ii, Snowy-headed Winter leads. 1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. iii. 434 On the brink of Ganges waits The snowy-vested seer. 1760Fawkes tr. Anacreon, Ode v. 19 With snowy-bosomed Sappho gay. 1830Howitt Bk. Seasons (1837) 145 The verdurous, snowy-flowered elder. 1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Clouds i. iii, Mimas's snowy-capped summit. 1855Tennyson Maud i. viii, I heard no longer The snowy-banded..priest intone. 1889Doyle M. Clarke 227 A great herd of snowy-fleeced sheep.
B. n.
a. slang. Linen.
b. The snowy owl.
1877J. W. Horsley Jottings fr. Jail 6 We used to go and smug snowy (steal linen) that was hung out to dry. 1904P. Fountain Great North-West xiii. 144 If these are European snowies, the North-West Territory bird is probably a distinct variety. Ibid., The snowy made the feathers fly.
Hence ˈsnowyish a., somewhat snowy.
1821Blackw. Mag. X. 570 It is..rawish—coldish—icyish—snowyish. |