Words for ice and snow

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

Not to be confused with Kate Bush's 50 words for snow.

January 13, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

Found the Sailors Word Book - and the nautical terms for ice.

http://goo.gl/ZIhkR adding some sailors terms for ice and snow

January 18, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

ok.. i'm done a mega list commenting. I wonder who added poo ice to their favourite words.

January 18, 2013

ry commented on the list words-for-ice

That was me!! And, also, "mega list commenting" is not a problem; the site is the better for it (in fact I think it should have a more lofty term applied, maybe compleating or something). If only there were some more customizable feed of recent comments...not just the Community page...

January 18, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

Some more ice definition resources

Environment Canada

http://www.ec.gc.ca/glaces-ice/default.asp?lang=En&n=05F5AE4E-1&wsdoc=A763C9A6-99E3-4FD0-AF5A-5378B326C62E

An old Scottish dictionary

http://goo.gl/cy6Es

and Alaska.

Alaska has tons of snow.

http://www2.gi.alaska.edu/~eicken/he_teach/GEOS615icenom/form/types.html

The WMO has a book defining all the internationally defined types of sea ice. http://goo.gl/msZp0

(google book preview not available)

Avalanche Canada has some scientific terms yet to be added.

http://www.avalanche.ca/cac/library/glossary/a-z

January 24, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

500 words for ice and snow.

January 24, 2013

bilby commented on the list words-for-ice

❄nice list⛄

January 26, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

thanks

I made it by starting with a dozen well known words for snow and ice, performing the reverse definition to get more ideas. I looked up things in wikipedia, used google book search to find 'dictionary snow' 'dictionary ice' 'dictionary frost' to get more reverse dictionary results. I ended up finding a sailors word list, meteorological texts, scientific texts on crystal growth, ski word lists. Environment Canada will still have a few unlisted words and terms. At the scientific pages, I found that theres 17 types of base crystal shapes that a snowflake or ice crystal can start out as.

January 26, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

added another half dozen terms related to frost flowers, which is ice and frost extruded out of the pores of plants

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_flower

ice stalactite and choss found in this epic ice climbing video. http://vimeo.com/56771496

February 9, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

to do: add some snowmenclature words.

http://www.wordnik.com/words/snowmenclature

February 21, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

BBC article mentioned 'Ice Blades' on Europa, and penitents spelled as penitentes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21341176

March 20, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

Princeton has a list of the inuit words for snow.

http://www.princeton.edu/~browning/snow.html

March 20, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

I'm proud to say that I've been awarded the Canadian Heritage TimBit award for documenting these over 600 words for ice and snow. I was snowed in for 7 weeks, and had this list to occupy my time during those darkest days of winter.

April 1, 2013

ruzuzu commented on the list words-for-ice

Excellent. Are Timbits anything like Tim Tams?

April 1, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

A timbit is a like a small bite of a donut.

In donut making, the 'bread' style donuts are cut out in ring shapes and allowed to rise in a proofing oven. The inner 'holes' are seperated out and allowed to rise as little ball shapes and then deep fried.

So a timbit tastes like a mini donut. Having been to Australia and eating TimTams once, timtams are like a chocolate/sugary treat.

Also, April Fools on the literary prize.

April 1, 2013

ruzuzu commented on the list words-for-ice

I'd wondered about the prize. :-)

We could give you a madeupical Wordnik one. Do you like fufluns?

April 3, 2013

fbharjo commented on the list words-for-ice

OR How about a tinseled timbitpick(stick)?

An alliteration prize?

April 3, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

Martin Chaplin's phase diagram showing 15 states of Ice. http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html

August 24, 2013

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

added 8 icy words from the word hoard : shuckle, tankle, cancervell, daggler, clinkerbell, aquabob, wurr. (already had ickle on my list)
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape?CMP=share_btn_tw

March 1, 2015

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

found spittens , slusch  ,yird-drift  ,scud , stock-storm , moorawav , rone , pewil , speen-drift , spuine-drift , waufle , white shower , sleek , skalve , ree , smore thow , ringing black frost

May 18, 2015

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

spotted on Wordnik's tweets.
http://scotsthesaurus.org/

Historical Thesaurus of Scots - a searchable online thesaurus has 421 or so words for snow.  They can have some from this list if they want. :)

September 24, 2015

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

It's been a few years since I touched this list.. added another 25 words or so. Thanks to suggestions from Mastodon.

January 6, 2024

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

Discovered the National Ice and Snow Data Center... and they have all the science words for snow and ice.

https://nsidc.org/learn/cryosphere-glossary

It looks like Science may win the word race.  .. ok  we got over 100 terms in this list.  some of which are repeats

January 9, 2024