A local weatherman in the Philadelphia market announced the other night that he was going to incorporate two newly coined words (as per him, I guess) into his winter forecasts: snirt and slickery.

snirt: dirty snow, especially at the side of the road [carbon tinged, etc; not the yellow kind].

slickery: a surface that's wet and icy.

I seem to have heard snirt before, mebbe even discussed here a while back. Slickery seems new to me though...and I like it.

here's the top ten favorite words not in the dictionary, according to M-W; but I didn't notice a date on it.

I've used (and like) slickery for quite a while, but never heard snirt. snirt just doesn't ring true for me, however.

of the M-W list, I've heard several, and like less than that. gription is a good one.

another I'd like to see get more use is legumatician (bean counter).

The dictionaries I use do approve of "ginormous" (as a combination of gigantic and enormous). Mayhaps is also one of those words (maybe and perhaps). And there's also mayhap (may-happen), which is more commonly accepted in dictionaries than the previous.

I only knew "confuzzled" and "woot" (though usually spelt "w00t" by gamers) from the list.

I like snickery... though snirt sounds like green snot to me.

A weatherman in Detroit, Sonny Eliot, has been using words such as these since the '50's. He is still doing radio weather in Detroit, as far as I can tell. My SO grew up in Detroit, watching Sonny's weather report. He said that the man has an effortless style, an unforgettable voice, and boundless energy. With Sonny you get more than the weather, something that had, and perhaps still has, many in Detroit waiting for the news to end so the weather could begin.

Butbutbut... how is "slickery" different from "slippery"?

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Butbutbut... how is "slickery" different from "slippery"?

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Someone came along and changed the middle two letters. Further discussion will just lead us inevitably to a slickery sloke.