04 February 2015

Your word for today is: ninguid, adj.
† ninguid, adj.
[‘ Snowy; covered in snow.’]
Forms:  ningid,   ninguid
Etymology: <  post-classical Latin ninguidus (also ningidus) snowy, covered in snow (late 4th cent.) <  classical Latin ninguis snow (cognate with snow n.1) + -idus -id suffix1.
 Obs. rare—0.
  Snowy; covered in snow.
1656  T. Blount GlossographiaNingid or Ninguid, where much Snow is.

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