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Word of the Day: niveous
www.merriam-webster.com ^ | December 27, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 12/27/2024 11:59:35 AM PST by Red Badger

niveous

adjective

niv·​e·​ous ˈnivēəs

: of or relating to snow : resembling snow (as in whiteness) : snowy

niveous rock

a niveous landscape

Word History

Etymology

Latin niveus, from niv-, nix snow


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1 posted on 12/27/2024 11:59:35 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: xsmommy; Louis Foxwell; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

How devious can you get with niveous?............


2 posted on 12/27/2024 12:00:18 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like Nevaeh...😉


3 posted on 12/27/2024 12:04:07 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

Nevis:
island and state in the Caribbean Sea


4 posted on 12/27/2024 12:05:53 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Never knew that word, thx.

Recently learned this word too:

“fey” (adj.)

Apparently also recently inadvertently revived this word, last used in the early 1600s (if the folks at the online Oxford English Dictionary or OED are to be believed):

“sanate” (v.)


5 posted on 12/27/2024 12:08:44 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

I’m dreaming of a niveous Christmas....


6 posted on 12/27/2024 12:13:08 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Been to St. Kitts!

Had a buddy in the Coast Guard there.

Jason Maloney.

He actually was the swabbie who came out to meet our USN ship when we put in for a port visit.

As he motored up, This Guy, in Deck Division at the time, calmly said:. “Hey Jason.”

Shipmates were amazed. “You know him?!?!”

Had some good liberty with my buddy Jason to show me around!


7 posted on 12/27/2024 12:13:59 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Red Badger

Good one RB!


8 posted on 12/27/2024 12:14:35 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

Just doesn’t sound the same!............


9 posted on 12/27/2024 12:15:12 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

“I’m dreaming of a niveous Christmas....”

So is Hunter Biden.

:-)


10 posted on 12/27/2024 12:16:39 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: cgbg

😁.........................


11 posted on 12/27/2024 12:17:26 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Al Hamilton born there.

Bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar.


12 posted on 12/27/2024 12:18:27 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Red Badger

Spend a White Winter Week at Lake Tahoe, Ca.
Where the slopes are niveous
and your neighbors are envious!


13 posted on 12/27/2024 12:19:47 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

And the animals carnivorous!.............


14 posted on 12/27/2024 12:21:51 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

and shoplifting is frivolous


15 posted on 12/27/2024 12:26:40 PM PST by BipolarBob (As it was in the days of Noah they were feasting, drinking egg nog and celebrating Christmas.)
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To: Red Badger

I have niveous privilege.


16 posted on 12/27/2024 12:29:27 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson (paraphrased): "If you strike at the king, don't fail." The Democrats failed. )
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LOL! GOOD ONE!................


17 posted on 12/27/2024 12:29:46 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Neither does “Frosty the Niveous Effigy”.


18 posted on 12/27/2024 12:56:14 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Red Badger

Is it just a coincidence that Spanish for “snow” is nieve?


19 posted on 12/27/2024 1:01:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Spanish is a Latin-derived language..............


20 posted on 12/27/2024 1:09:12 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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