connixation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Humorous alteration of conflagration, the -flagr- having been substituted with Latin nix (“snow”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒnɪksˈeɪʃən/
Noun[edit]
connixation (plural connixations)
- (rare) A large, smothering, and destructive blizzard.
- 1762, Horace Walpole, Private correspondence, page 136:
- 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.