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blizzard

We do not ever get blizzards in the UK, it is a purely North American phenomenon as instanced in, for example, the diary entry of L. B. Wolf from 1 December 1859: "Zounds, boys; we've got it this morning. Sure it would freeze the horn of a brass monkey, remarked Kelly, (an old veteran), and I thought it might do it, for a blizzard had come upon us about midnight and I thought it a howling success. No breakfast, formed line, shot 7 horses that were so chilled could not get up, started out by twos from the right, trot march for Cottonwood creek. Seven of us got there in formed line, the balance strung back along the trail, some not getting in until after dark, a frozen set. The captain had his left cheek and ear, hands and feet badly frozen, Rogers his hands and feet, "Pickles" Houston's hands frozen and the sight of his left eye ruined.".



squall

hooley (as in blowing a hooley - very Cornish saying)

gale

eg. Richard Hakluyt: The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation - "At noon we had a fresh gale in the poop".



wind

belch

(wonders if I now need to go off and find a quote )

Quotes optional, I saw the Hakluyt on a shelf here. Thoroughly educational, Hakluyt.


Budweiser

Brew

infuse

soak

drunkard

ugly

fearsome

chilling

I will dip my toe experimentally into arcane modern slang and see whether this works...





relaxing

haha as in netflix and chill


meditating

consider

contemplate

foresee

predict

infer

conclude

terminate

discharge

seep

into

appreciative

Grateful

"You oppress me, Sir, by your goodness! I cannot speak my grateful sensibilities." - I quite like that.




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Hall

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