Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See ice fog.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A frozen fog, formed in the coldest weather in the mountain valleys of Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. When inhaled it often produces severe pulmonary trouble.
Wiktionary
- n. A ice fog which forms in valleys in the Western United States.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dense winter fog containing ice particles
Etymologies
- From Shoshone paγinappih ("thunder cloud") or a related word. (Wiktionary)
- Shoshone pakenappeh. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“According to Native American tradition, breathing pogonip can danger your lungs.”
“COOPER: There are things that -- pogonip is a noun.”
“Is pogonip A, smoke from the campfire; B, bee pollen; C, frozen fog; or D, smelly fish guts?”
“This doubtless reflects psychoanalytic theory's cherished insistence that the patient actually does the analyzing in the long run and thus is more truly the active partner. pogonip Another sure-fire dictionary winner: not a quick drink snatched while riding a bouncy stick, but a fog laden with particles of ice.”
“Meteorologists utilize not only chinook, already mentioned, but also pogonip”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pogonip’.
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Wordplayer's Wonderful Words
chaparral, grotesque, knork, newsmonger, thitherwards, fackeltanz, kakistocracy, sforzando, compendium, frump, inquere, phosphene and 100 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
triffid, calque, pinguid, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 263 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 619 more...
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Balderdash
If you've ever played the game "Balderdash," you may have heard of the 'Weird Words' category. This category lists some pretty strange words... these are a few examples of word you may come across ...
fackeltanz, bwlch, philtrum, dewlap, bunjibunji, ferdwit, baronduki, zamouse, sialogogue, shchekotiki, fipple, progger and 99 more...
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p is for...
my favorite voiceless bilabial plosive.
panacea, persnickety, panache, provenance, preternatural, penumbra, perfunctory, perspicacity, potentate, pinguid, plainsong, pleonastic and 228 more...
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A Peckerwick of Fiffoldry
fogray, whalesong, solregn, shoecabbage, thorn-bush, thistledown, pomander, thornbush, dreamy duskywing, sedge, unbunting-like, quilp and 119 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 284 more...
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Papa
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preternatural, paean, pastiche, picaresque, proclivity, plenilune, phlox, praxis, phoneme, profligate, periphrastic, panspermia and 67 more...
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Arctic
cloud-berg, calf, icefall, polynya, lead, growler, icescape, pogonip, sconce, nilas, burga, aufeis and 10 more...
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Freedom
ipseity, ataxia, cognoscible, poikilotherm, seity, cerulean, thrasonical, diacritical, pogonip, armigerous, nyctalopia, incarnadine and 1 more...
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There's a word for that? The Mother N...
glin, virga, freshet, petrichor, psithurism, apricity, plenilunary, parhelion, ombrophobous, nemophily, lychnidiate, mizzle and 31 more...
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Ice Ice Baby
Geographical and weather-related ice formations and phenomena.
frazil, shuga, grease, brash, ice cake, finger rafting, lead, polynya, sea ice, pack ice, ice-blink, ice scour and 88 more...
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