Reverse Dictionary: SNOW

ADJECTIVES
1580 — FEATHERY of snow: like a feather in appearance
1623 — NIXIOUS white as snow, snowy → obs.
1656 — NINGUID where much snow is → obs.
1794 — EIDENT of rain, snow, etc.: steady, continuous, unceasing → Sc.
1825 — GLUSHIE abounding with snow in a state of liquefaction, slushy → Sc.
1825 — SCOWTHERIE — SCOWTHERY beginning or threatening to rain or snow → Sc. 
1845 — SUBNIVEAN existing or carried on under the snow
1878 — ROTTEN of snow: soft, yielding, esp. as forming a layer concealed beneath a firmer surface
1885 — SUBNIVEAL existing or carried on under the snow
1898 — CALF-LEG-DEEP of water or snow: so deep as to reach up to the calf of the leg → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1996 — BLIZZY snowy → Antarctica usage

NOUNS
1670 — FLIGHT a light fall of snow → US
1776 — ON-DING a persistent heavy fall of rain or snow → Sc.
1787 — LYING-STORM a snowstorm when the snow lies → Sc.
1790 — LAMB-STORMS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs → Eng. dial.
1790 — RAFF a short sharp shower of rain or snow, accompanied by gusts of wind; a driving shower → Sc.
1801 — ENDRIFT snow driven by the wind → Sc.
1806 — LAVANGE a great fall of snow from mountains; an avalanche
1808 — SKIFT a light fall of snow or rain; a thin layer of snow or frost on the ground, or of ice on water → Amer. dial.
1815 — MUSH melting snow or ice; slush
1818 — WAP a sudden storm of snow → Sc.
1819 — FEEDING-STORM a continuous snow-storm → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1821 — ONFALL a fall of rain or snow → Sc.
1824 — DRIFFLE a slight shower of rain or snow; a drizzle; a short spell of stormy weather; a gale → Sc.
1824 — LAPPER snow in the act of melting; soft, slushy snow → Sc.
1825 — CAVABURD — KAVABURD a thick fall of snow; snow drifted violently by the wind → Sc.
1825 — MOORAWAY a thick shower of drifting snow → Sc.
1825 — WAFFLE a slight fall or flurry of snow → Sc.
1828 — FLIT a flurry of snow → Amer. dial.
1835 — LOPPER half-melted snow
1844 — KATTY-CLEAN-DOORS a child’s name for snow → Sc.
1845 — SPOSH a mixture of mud and water; slush, soft snow mixed with water in thawing weather; water partially frozen → US
1847 — SKIT a slight shower of rain or snow
1850 — ST. CAUSLAN’S FLAW a snowstorm in March → Sc.
1860 — WAFF a slight amount of something blown about by the wind, as snow or smoke, a puff, a flurry → Sc.
1866 — FAN — FANN a drift of snow → Sc.
1866 — KAAVIE a heavy fall of snow; a blizzard → Sc.
1866 — SCOUTHER — SCOWTHER a slight quantity of fallen snow, a sprinkling of snow → Sc. 
1867 — BILLOWS snowdrifts → Eng. dial.
1868 — BREAKUP the late spring melting of ice and snow → Amer. dial.
1873 — BLUNT a storm of snow or rain →  Eng. dial.
1874 — A DEAL OF WEATHER heavy rain or snow → Eng. dial.  
1876 — SHED a light fall of snow
1882 — FLOBBER snow which melts in falling before touching the ground → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1887 — DIRT rain, snow, or sleet; ‘dirty’ or stormy weather → Eng. dial.
1889 — GRAUPEL soft hail or snow pellets → German
1889 — MOOR a dense cover of snow → Sc.
1891 — FALL a fall of rain or snow; a shower of rain, a snowstorm → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1891 — HAP a heavy fall of snow → Eng. dial.
1892 — FALLING a downfall of snow, rain, or hail; a snowstorm; generally in plural → Eng. dial.
1897 — SKIFT a small quantity of snow → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — SCALVA snow in broad flakes, wet snow; heaps of snow → Sc.
1899 — GOUT a lump of something semiliquid; a lump of clotted blood; a lump of snow → Amer. dial.
1900 — DOBBLE snow or earth which ‘balls’ or clogs on the feet → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — GOOR the broken ice and  half-melted snow of a thaw → Sc. (Bk.)
1902 — LAMB-BLASTS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 — LAMB-SHOWERS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 — MIRK-DRIFE a fine driving snow or mist → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — REEK a pile, a heap, esp. of snow; a drift → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SCOOCHER a slide down a snow-slope in a squatting position → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SCOUTHERIN — SCOWTHERIN’ a sprinkling of newly-fallen snow, a slight quantity of fallen snow → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — HOGAMADOG the huge ball of snow made by boys in rolling a snow ball over soft snow → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — LAYING-WEATHER when snow lays long on the ground → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TINDA fleecy wet snow → Sc. (Bk.)
1908 — SKIM a very light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1909 — ONCOME a fall of rain or snow → Sc. (Bk.)
1910 — SLUSH-UP the slushy condition of country roads resulting from a sudden thaw → Amer. dial.
1911 — BLEFFART — BLIFFART a squall, a gust; a short and sudden fall of snow → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BLIND-DRIFT heavily driving snow; a blinding, drifting snow → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BLIRT a storm of wind and rain; a cold drift of snow → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BLOUT the bursting of a storm; a sudden fall of rain, snow, or hail, with wind → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BRACK a sudden fall of earth or snow on a slope; a flood from a thaw; a sudden and heavy fall of rain → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BREAK a heavy fall of rain or snow → Sc. (Bk.)
1912 — FALLING-WEATHER a rainy or snowy time → US (Bk.)
1913 — GIPSEN SNOW a slight snowfall → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — LAMB-KILLER a heavy snow storm late in the spring → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — SKIFF a thin coat or layer, as of snow → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1930 — ONION SNOW a light snowfall in the spring, usually after the onions have been set out → Amer. dial.
1932 — SNOW DEVIL a whirling column of snow → Can.
1942 — DRIBBLE a shower or snowstorm → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SPITTER a shower or snowstorm → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1944 — BLOW-SNOW a combination of wind and snow → Amer. dial.
1944 — FLOUR-SIFTER SNOW snow which falls in small flakes → Amer. dial.
1946 — BIRD SNOW late spring snow → Amer. dial.  
1951 — SCUTCH a light dusting or flurry of snow → Amer. dial.
1954 — RED ROBIN SNOW late spring snow → Amer. dial.
1955 — CORN SNOW a granular snow produced by successive thawing and freezing; spring snow → Amer. dial.
1957 — TERMINATION DUST the first snow, which marks the end of the construction season and the termination of the job → Amer. dial.
1959 — CORE the pile of snow left after ploughing → Amer. dial.
1961 — CRUD in skiing and snowboarding: wet or heavy snow on which it is difficult to ski → sl.
1965 — GOOSE FEATHERS  large, soft flakes of snow → Amer. dial.
1965 — MIST a very light snowfall → Amer. dial.
1965 — SKIMMER a very light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1965 — WEATHER FALL a period of rain, snow, hail, or heavy fog → Amer. dial.
1966 — GOOSE DOWN a light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1967 — BLUE SNOW a light snowfall, when the wind’s blowing a few flakes → Amer. dial.
1967 — CAT’S TRACK a light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1967 — CAT-TRACKER a light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1967 — CAT-TRACKING SNOW a light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1967 — SKIMP a thin coat of snow or ice → . Amer. dial.
1967 — SKIP a very light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1967 — SKIPT a very light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1968 — CAHOOZIN a dip-shaped hole in snow, worn down from sleighs → Amer. dial.
1968 — SCUT a light dusting or flurry of snow → Amer. dial.
1968 — SKIRT a very light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1969 — YANKEE COTTON snow → Amer. dial.
1971 — CORN icy, sleet-like snow → US sl. (Bk.)
1971 — SIERRA CEMENT powder snow with a good snowball-making consistency → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1975 — FLIRT O’ SNOW a light flurry of snow; a very light sprinkling of snow → Amer. dial.
1976 — DANDRUFF snow → US sl.
1977 — SKID a light fall of snow or rain → Amer. dial.
1978 — YANKEE RAIN snow → Amer. dial.
1983 — SNOW SNAKE a thin ribbon of drifting snow → Amer. dial.
1984 — SKIRMISH a very light fall of snow → Amer. dial.
1985 — LORD’S FERTILIZER spring snow → Amer. dial.
1987 — SNARD LUMPS snow and ice clumps that build up under the fender of the car → Can. sl.
1987 — SNIRT a stormy mixture of snow and dirt → Can. sl.
1991 — CHINOPHOBIA an abnormal fear or dislike of snow (Bk.)
1991 — CHIONOMANIA a mania for snow (Bk.)
1991 — CHIONOPHOBIA — CHONOPHOBIA an abnormal fear or dislike of snow (Bk.)
1992 — COME (AND GO) snow → UK rhyming sl.
1995 — FRESHIES in snowboarding: the first tracks in virgin snow → US sl.
1996 — POOR MAN”S MANURE snow that falls in early spring → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1996 — ROBIN SNOW a light snow that comes in mid-spring when robins are already in evidence → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
2002 — ALBINO GRASS — snow fallen on a Vancouver, British Columbia, lawn → Can. sl.
2006 — FLUFF-STUFF snow → US sl. (Bk.)
2008 — DAMN YANKEE COTTON snow → Amer. dial.

PHRASES
1896 — TAKE A SCOOCHER to slide down a snow slope in a squatting position → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1899 — THE DEVIL IS FIGHTING WITH HIS WIFE it’s raining or snowing, used esp. when the sun is also shining → Amer. dial.
1899 — THE DEVIL IS WHIPPING HIS WIFE it’s raining or snowing, used esp. when the sun is also shining → Amer. dial.
1899 — THE OLD WOMAN IS PICKING HER GEESE. it is snowing → Amer. dial.
1917 — MOTHER CAREY IS PLUCKING HER GEESE it is snowing
1930 — THE DEVIL IS BEATING HIS WIFE it’s raining or snowing, used esp. when the sun is also shining → Amer. dial.
1942 — THE OLD WOMAN IS A-LOSIN’ HER FEATHERS large flakes of snow are falling fast → Amer. dial.
1969 — AUNT DINAH’S PICKING HER GEESE it’s snowing; said when huge feathery snowflakes are falling, esp. in early winter and first snow falls → Amer. dial.
1983 — THE OLD WOMAN IS PLUCKING THE GEESE it is snowing → Amer. dial.

VERBS
1639 — DRIFFLE to drizzle; to rain or snow fitfully or in sparse drops, as at the ‘tail’ of a shower → Sc.
1746 — BLUNK to snow → Eng. dial.
1779 — BREAK — BREAK OUT to clear deep snow from a path or road → Amer. dial.
1866 — KAAVIE of snow: to fall heavily and in drifts → Sc.
1866 — SCOUTHER — SCOWDER to rain or snow slightly; to drizzle → Sc. 
1876 — MAFT to drift: of dust, snow, etc. → Eng. dial. obs.
1889 — MOOR to snow heavily, esp. when the snow is drifted thickly by a vehement wind → Sc.
1898 — SNOW-BLOCK to block or impede the passage of by snow (Bk.)
1902 — KAAV to snow heavily → Sc. (Bk.)
1902 — MUSH — MUSH ON to proceed, to travel, usually on foot through snow → Amer. dial.
1911 — BLIRT to rain or snow → Sc. (Bk.)
1928 — SAD of snow: to subside → Sc.
1929 — FAN — FANN of snow: to form drifts → Sc.
1937 — PANK to pack or tamp down; to flatten; to crush; often said of sand, snow, hair, etc. → Amer. dial.
1999 — POST-HOLE to walk in snow sinking deeply with each step → Amer. dial.