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单词 connixation
释义

connixation

English

Etymology

Humorous alteration of conflagration, the -flagr- having been substituted with Latin nix (snow).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒnɪksˈeɪʃən/

Noun

connixation (plural connixations)

  1. (rare) A large, smothering, and destructive blizzard.
    • 1762, Horace Walpole, Private correspondence, page 136:
      As we have never had a rainbow to assure us that the world shall not be snowed to death, I thought last night was the general connixation.
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