Tuesday, August 20, 2013

THE FIRST WORD

snowbroth

PRONUNCIATION:
(SNO-broth) 

MEANING:
noun: Melted snow.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English snaw (snow) + broth (broth). Earliest documented use: 1600.

USAGE:
"Snowballs and snowmen and snowbroth boiled on our tinny fires on the beach."
Christopher Rush; A Twelvemonth and a Day; Canongate Books; 2010.

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