snithingadj.
Now dialect.
Of wind, etc.: Nipping, cutting; piercing, sharp. (Cf. snithe adj.)
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fellc1330
snithinga1350
sharpc1435
hoar?a1500
sneaping1598
shrewd1603
bittera1616
snithe1671
cutting1798
stingy1823
a1350 St. Martin 24 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 152 It was cald with weders wete, Snythand frost with snaw and slete.
1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. (at cited word) A snithing wind.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 247 Snithing,..applied to weather. ‘A bloshing and snithing day.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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