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- noun rare A
large ,smothering , anddestructive blizzard .
Etymologies
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Humorous alteration of conflagration, the -flagr- having been substituted with Latin nix ("snow").
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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.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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