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blizzard|ˈblɪzəd|
[A modern word, prob. more or less onomatopœic; suggestive words are blow, blast, blister, bluster: the Fr. blesser to wound, has also been conjectured, but there is nothing to indicate a French origin. As applied to a ‘snow-squall,’ the word became general in the American newspapers during the severe winter of 1880–81; but according to the Milwaukee Republican 4 Mar. 1881, it had been so applied in the Northern Vindicator (Estherville, Iowa) between 1860 and 1870. It was apparently in colloquial use in the West much earlier; but whether Col. Crockett's use of it in 1834 (sense 1) was fig., taken from the stifling blast, or was the earlier sense, and subseq. transferred to the blast, is not determined.]
1. A sharp blow or knock; a shot. Also fig. U.S.
1829Virginia Lit. Museum 16 Dec. 418 Blizzard, a violent blow. 1834Crockett Tour down East 16 (Bartlett) A gentleman at dinner asked me for a toast; and supposing he meant to have some fun at my expense, I concluded to go ahead, and give him and his likes a blizzard. 1856Sacramento City (Cal.) Item (Th.), When some true archer, from the upper tier, Gave him a ‘blizzard’ on the nearest ear. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 443 Blizzard..means in the West a stunning blow or an overwhelming argument.
2. A furious blast of frost-wind and blinding snow, in which man and beast frequently perish; a ‘snow-squall’. Also attrib. and Comb. orig. U.S.
1859L. B. Wolf Diary 1 Dec. in Kansas Hist. Q. (1932) I. 205 A blizzard had come upon us about midnight... Shot 7 horses that were so chilled could not get up. 1876Monthly Weather Rev. Dec. 424 The very severe storms known in local parlance as ‘blizzards’ were reported on the 8th as prevailing in Iowa and Wisconsin. 1880Let. 29 Dec., fr. Chicago in Manch. Even. News, 24 Jan. 1881 The thermometer was 17 degrees below zero last night, and it was blowing a blizzard all the time. 1881Standard 22 Jan. 5/1 The region [Manitoba] is swept by those fearful blasts known as ‘blizzards’ which send the ‘poudre’, or dry snow, whirling in icy clouds. 1881N.Y. Nation 184 The hard weather has called into use a word which promises to become a national Americanism, namely ‘blizzard’. It designates a storm (of snow and wind) which men cannot resist away from shelter. 1882Contemp. Rev. Sept. 350 Those bitter ‘blizzards’ so justly dreaded by all who have to do with live stock. 1888T. Watts in Athenæum 18 Aug. 224/2 By Ferrol Bay those galleys stoop To blasts more dire than breath of Orkney blizzard. 1902R. F. Scott Jrnl. 12 Aug. in Voyage of ‘Discovery’ (1905) I. ix. 383 Another blizzard, so thick that one cannot see one's hand before one's face. 1903Ibid. 12 Dec. II. xviii. 276 Our long stay in the blizzard camp. 1912― Jrnl. Mar. in Scott's Last Expedition (1913) I. xx. 592 It was blowing a blizzard. He [sc. Captain Oates] said, ‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’ He went out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since. 1963D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation i. 8 The coldest, blizzard-swept regions of the world. 1969Times 8 Feb. 1/2 Blizzards and icy winds swept across Britain yesterday.
Hence ˈblizzarded pa. pple., a more emphatic form of ‘blowed’ (blow v.1 29); ˈblizzardy a., characterized by, or resembling, a blizzard or blizzards; ˈblizzardly, ˈblizzardous a.
1883Let. in Advance 1 Mar., Driving snow, with very blizzardly tendencies. 1888San Francisco News Let. (Farmer), I should like to have seen the Colonel's face when he got that very cold blizzardy letter. 1892Gunter Miss Dividends i. vi. 67 Then he suddenly ejaculates ‘Well I'm blizzarded!’ 1946Chicago Daily News 5 Mar. 8/4 [It] would ruin the disposition of the throngs..especially on blizzardy nights. |