snow

Meanings

Noun

• The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
• Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
• A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
• A shade of the color white.
• The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
• Cocaine.
• A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

Verb

• To have snow fall from the sky.
• To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
• To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.

Related

Similar words

• blow

Origin

• From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English snāw ("snow"), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz ("snow"), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos ("snow"), from the root *sneygʷʰ-.
• Cognate with Scots snaw ("snow"), West Frisian snie ("snow"), Dutch sneeuw ("snow"), German Schnee ("snow"), Danish sne ("snow"), Norwegian snø ("snow"), Swedish snö ("snow"), Icelandic snjór ("snow"), Latin nix ("snow"), Russian снег, Ancient Greek νίφα, dialectal Albanian nehë ("place where the snow melts"), Sanskrit स्नेह ("oil, grease").
• From Low German Snaue, or Dutch snaauw, from Low German Snau. See snout.