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单词 snowish
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snowishadj.

/ˈsnəʊɪʃ/
Forms: Also Middle English snowisse, Middle English snowych, 1500s snowyshe, snawishe, 1600s Scottish snawisch.
Etymology: < snow n.1
1. Resembling snow in whiteness; snowy, snow-white. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as snow
snow-whitec1000
as pure (also white) as (the) driven snowc1330
snowishc1374
snowy1590
nixious1623
snow-like1663
snow1750
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1250 Her snowisse throte, hir brestis rounde and lyte.
1433 J. Lydgate Legend St. Edmund App. 189 A dowe with snowych fetherys whight.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. ii O Festyuall daye, worthy a snowyshe lytell stone.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 87 This angellis weid wes snawith [read -ich] in cullour.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xx. 86 Her snowish Necke, with blewish Vaynes.
1603 Philotus lxi. sig. C2v Ȝour snawisch cheiks lyke quhytest Allabast.
2. Characterized by the presence or prevalence of snow; somewhat snowy.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [adjective]
snowyc1000
snowish1566
ninguid1656
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Hvjv Though whiskinge wyndes, do shaue the earth, And though the snawishe day, Be shorte, and sharpe.
3. Covered with snow. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [adjective] > covered with snow
snowy1548
snowish1589
whited1655
snow-clad1812
snowed1854
snowed-in1982
1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iv. 75 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Tanais floud all snowish (or all ouerlaid with snow), And grounds at no time void of frosts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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