See blizzard in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blizzardlike"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blizzardly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blizzardous"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blizzardy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blizzaster"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blizzicane"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "ground blizzard"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "superblizzard"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en"
},
"expansion": "Unknown",
"name": "unk"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "blizz",
"t": "violent rainstorm"
},
"expansion": "English blizz (“violent rainstorm”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bliz",
"t": "violent blow"
},
"expansion": "English bliz (“violent blow”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "blysa",
"4": "",
"5": "blaze"
},
"expansion": "Old English blysa (“blaze”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unknown, with various theories as below. Compare English blizz (“violent rainstorm”), dialectal English bliz (“violent blow”); one etymology, from Midlands English dialect, seems to be ultimately from Old English blysa (“blaze”).\nEtymology theories\n* The earliest written use of blizzard as a term to describe a severe snowstorm, spelled blizard, was in the Estherville, Iowa's Northern Vindicator on 23 April 1870. O.C. Bates, neologistic editor of the Northern Vindicator, used it for the terrific snowstorms in the state that spring. He claimed he had picked up the term from locals characterizing a \"Lightning Ellis\", on account of his violent outbursts. One week later it appeared again in the same newspaper, only with the now-common double-z spelling.\n* Blizzard possibly comes from the surname \"Blizzard\" dating back to 1700s(?). Blizzard surname possibly comes from the blizzard one, dating back to the 1500s(?).\n* The word blizzard was used (not in relation to the weather) in America prior to 1870. It had various, roughly associated, now obsolete meanings:\n: Blast with a firearm or cannon (whether one or multiple bullets or pellets uncertain)\n: Verbal blast\n: Blast with a firearm or cannon (single ball or bullet):\n: Blazing fire\n: Heavy or painful physical blow (not involving a firearm)\n: Literal or figurative attack\n: Exclamation (like “the blazes” or “blue blazes\")\n: Blast with multiple firearms or with a firearm loaded with multiple pellets\n: Shot of liquor\n* Probably from the German blitzartig (“very fast, like lightning”)\n* Another version suggests French blesser (to wound), but neither this nor the German can be substantiated. Yet another claims that blizzard derives from English dialect blizzer, meaning \"a blaze\" or \"flash\" (\"Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an' let's have a blizzer,\" - The English Dialect Dictionary) or from blazer (something that blazes or blasts), which gave the early sense \"a volley of firing guns,\" that is, a general \"blazing away.\"\n* Thomas Ratcliffe of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in the March 17, 1888, edition\nBLIZZARD (7th S. v. 106).—The word blizzard is well known through the Midlands, and its cognates are fairly numerous. I have known the word and its kin fully thirty years. Country folk use the word to denote blazing, blasting, blinding, dazzling, or stifling. One who has had to face a severe storm of snow, hail, rain, dust, or wind, would say on reaching shelter that he has \"faced a blizzer,\" or that the storm was \"a regular blizzard.\" A blinding flash of lightning would call forth the exclamation, \"My! that wor a blizzomer!\" or \"That wor a blizzer!\" \"Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an let's have a blizzer\"—a blaze. \"A good blizzom\" = a good blaze. \"That tree is blizzared\" = blasted, withered. As an oath the word is often used, and \"May I be blizzerded\" will be readily understood.\n* A check of some of the Midlands regional glossaries printed in the 1800s finds several entries for blizzy. First, from Anne Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases (1854):\nBLIZZY. A blaze. \"Blow the fire, and let's have a nice blizzy.\" This, though now considered a vulgarism, is a retention of the original A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze.\nAnd Angelina Parker, A Glossary of Words Used in Oxfordshire (1876):\nBlizzy, a flaring fire produced by putting on small sticks. Ex. 'Let's 'a a bit of a blizzy afore us goes to bed.'\nAnd from Barzillai Lowsley, A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases (1888):\nBLIZZY.— A blaze. The fire is said to be all of a \"blizzy\" when pieces of wood have been inserted amongst the coal to make it burn cheerfully.\nAnd from G. F. Northall, A Warwickshire Word-book (1896):\nBlizzy, sb. A blaze, a blast, a flare of fire. A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze. Common.\nThey suggest that blizzy survived from the ancient word blysa in numerous localities and might well share a root with the U.S. blizzard.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blizzards",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "blizzard (plural blizzards)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "34 17 21 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 16 15 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 15 14 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 13 12 21",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 12 14 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 14 11 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 14 12 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bashkir translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Basque translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 16 14 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Belarusian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 16 14 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Central Kurdish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 14 13 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 13 10 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 18 14 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Estonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Faroese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 17 13 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 13 11 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Georgian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "46 17 14 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 15 15 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 14 14 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 12 13 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 17 12 21",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ido translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 18 13 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ingrian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 18 12 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 18 12 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 15 11 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kannada translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 18 12 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latvian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 12 11 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 12 11 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mongolian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 17 12 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Navajo translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Persian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 15 13 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 21 24 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 18 12 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "43 17 12 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Shor translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovene translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 16 12 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 12 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tajik translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tatar translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 14 12 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 12 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkmen translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 15 13 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Uyghur translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 15 13 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Uzbek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 17 14 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Welsh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 15 13 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Yiddish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "61 7 7 25",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Atmospheric phenomena",
"orig": "en:Atmospheric phenomena",
"parents": [
"Atmosphere",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 4 6 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Snow",
"orig": "en:Snow",
"parents": [
"Water",
"Weather",
"Liquids",
"Atmosphere",
"Matter",
"Nature",
"Chemistry",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow."
],
"id": "en-blizzard-en-noun-~us7ZuUC",
"links": [
[
"snowstorm",
"snowstorm"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕāṣifa ṯaljiyya",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "عَاصِفَة ثَلْجِيَّة"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "damaq",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "دَمَق"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "jnabukʻ",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "ձնաբուք"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "çovğun"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "boran"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "buran",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "буран"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "bisuts"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "mjacjélica",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мяце́ліца"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "burán",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бура́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vixura",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "віхура"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "viélica",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вие́лица"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "fǎrtúna",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фърту́на"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "torb"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rufaga"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "暴風雪"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bàofēngxuě",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "暴风雪"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "大風雪"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàfēngxuě",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "大风雪"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "雪災"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xuězāi",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "雪灾"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blizard"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sněhová bouře"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sněhová vichřice"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vánice"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metelice"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "snestorm"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "sneeuwjacht"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumetorm"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kavaódn"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "myräkkä"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumimyrsky"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "pyry"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blizzard"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "corisco"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "calistro"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escarabana"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cebrisca"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "karbuki",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "ქარბუქი"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tovlbuki",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "თოვლბუქი"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tovl-karbuki",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "თოვლ-ქარბუქი"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schneesturm"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Blizzard"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chionothýella",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "χιονοθύελλα"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "niphetós",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "νιφετός"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "him āndhī",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "हिम आँधी"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "hóvihar"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "hófúvás"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "hóförgeteg"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hríðarbylur"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "nivegoza tempesto"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "myrsky"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "tuisku"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "pyry"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumipyry"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumisää"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumituisku"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "alasvaahto"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumitormi"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "síobadh sneachta"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tormenta"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"alt": "もうふぶき",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mōfubuki",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "猛吹雪"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "himapāta",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "ಹಿಮಪಾತ"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "boran",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "боран"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nunbora",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "눈보라"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "kirrêwe",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "کِڕێوە"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "boroon",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бороон"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nigor"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ningor"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sniegputenis"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pūga"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lúnja",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лу́ња"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "snéžna búra",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сне́жна бу́ра"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "fortúna",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "форту́на"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "huka kairākau"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "casan šuurga",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "цасан шуурга"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "chííl bił hááyoł"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "snøstorm"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kulâk",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "کولاک"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "burân",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "بوران"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zamieć"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zadymka"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "śnieżyca"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nevão"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nevasca"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "viscol"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vifor"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "burán",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бура́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "purgá",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пурга́"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vʹjúga",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вью́га"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metélʹ",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мете́ль"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "snéžnaja búrja",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сне́жная бу́ря"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metélica",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мете́лица"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cathadh"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cathadh-sneachda"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "мѐћава"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "mèćava"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cjs",
"lang": "Shor",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "поран"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blizard"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metelica"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "snehová búrka"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blizzard"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "snežni vihar"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ventisca"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tempestad de nieve"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "snöstorm"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "snöoväder"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "büron",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "бӯрон"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "buran",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "буран"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "paa-yú-hì-má",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "พายุหิมะ"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "tipi"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "syrgyn"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zametílʹ",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "заметі́ль"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "burán",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бура́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "purhá",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пурга́"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zavirjúxa",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "завірю́ха"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "shiwirghan",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "شىۋىرغان"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "boʻron"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "izgʻirin"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lluwchwynt"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 2 4",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "zaverukhe",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "זאַווערוכע"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "35 14 11 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 14 12 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 15 11 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kannada translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 15 13 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 14 12 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large amount of paperwork."
],
"id": "en-blizzard-en-noun-nOMij~Ln",
"links": [
[
"paperwork",
"paperwork"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) A large amount of paperwork."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 90 7",
"code": "fi",
"english": "mountain",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"word": "vuori"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 90 7",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chartománi",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "χαρτομάνι"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 90 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "montagna"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 90 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "marea"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 90 7",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nawał"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 90 7",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nawała"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 90 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "montanha"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 90 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "monte"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 90 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lavína",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лави́на"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with collocations",
"parents": [
"Terms with collocations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "35 14 11 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 14 12 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 15 11 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kannada translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 15 13 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 14 12 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a blizzard of political ads",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:",
"text": "Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large number of similar things."
],
"id": "en-blizzard-en-noun-Ks2G3Vu6",
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) A large number of similar things."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 4 93",
"code": "fi",
"english": "landslide",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large number of similar things",
"word": "vyöry"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 93",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "thýella",
"sense": "large number of similar things",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "θύελλα"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 93",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large number of similar things",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nawał"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 93",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large number of similar things",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nawała"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblɪ.zəd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈblɪ.zɚd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-blizzard.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/57/En-us-blizzard.ogg/En-us-blizzard.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/En-us-blizzard.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪzə(ɹ)d"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Estherville, Iowa",
"Midlands English",
"blizzard"
],
"word": "blizzard"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en"
},
"expansion": "Unknown",
"name": "unk"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "blizz",
"t": "violent rainstorm"
},
"expansion": "English blizz (“violent rainstorm”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bliz",
"t": "violent blow"
},
"expansion": "English bliz (“violent blow”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "blysa",
"4": "",
"5": "blaze"
},
"expansion": "Old English blysa (“blaze”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unknown, with various theories as below. Compare English blizz (“violent rainstorm”), dialectal English bliz (“violent blow”); one etymology, from Midlands English dialect, seems to be ultimately from Old English blysa (“blaze”).\nEtymology theories\n* The earliest written use of blizzard as a term to describe a severe snowstorm, spelled blizard, was in the Estherville, Iowa's Northern Vindicator on 23 April 1870. O.C. Bates, neologistic editor of the Northern Vindicator, used it for the terrific snowstorms in the state that spring. He claimed he had picked up the term from locals characterizing a \"Lightning Ellis\", on account of his violent outbursts. One week later it appeared again in the same newspaper, only with the now-common double-z spelling.\n* Blizzard possibly comes from the surname \"Blizzard\" dating back to 1700s(?). Blizzard surname possibly comes from the blizzard one, dating back to the 1500s(?).\n* The word blizzard was used (not in relation to the weather) in America prior to 1870. It had various, roughly associated, now obsolete meanings:\n: Blast with a firearm or cannon (whether one or multiple bullets or pellets uncertain)\n: Verbal blast\n: Blast with a firearm or cannon (single ball or bullet):\n: Blazing fire\n: Heavy or painful physical blow (not involving a firearm)\n: Literal or figurative attack\n: Exclamation (like “the blazes” or “blue blazes\")\n: Blast with multiple firearms or with a firearm loaded with multiple pellets\n: Shot of liquor\n* Probably from the German blitzartig (“very fast, like lightning”)\n* Another version suggests French blesser (to wound), but neither this nor the German can be substantiated. Yet another claims that blizzard derives from English dialect blizzer, meaning \"a blaze\" or \"flash\" (\"Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an' let's have a blizzer,\" - The English Dialect Dictionary) or from blazer (something that blazes or blasts), which gave the early sense \"a volley of firing guns,\" that is, a general \"blazing away.\"\n* Thomas Ratcliffe of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in the March 17, 1888, edition\nBLIZZARD (7th S. v. 106).—The word blizzard is well known through the Midlands, and its cognates are fairly numerous. I have known the word and its kin fully thirty years. Country folk use the word to denote blazing, blasting, blinding, dazzling, or stifling. One who has had to face a severe storm of snow, hail, rain, dust, or wind, would say on reaching shelter that he has \"faced a blizzer,\" or that the storm was \"a regular blizzard.\" A blinding flash of lightning would call forth the exclamation, \"My! that wor a blizzomer!\" or \"That wor a blizzer!\" \"Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an let's have a blizzer\"—a blaze. \"A good blizzom\" = a good blaze. \"That tree is blizzared\" = blasted, withered. As an oath the word is often used, and \"May I be blizzerded\" will be readily understood.\n* A check of some of the Midlands regional glossaries printed in the 1800s finds several entries for blizzy. First, from Anne Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases (1854):\nBLIZZY. A blaze. \"Blow the fire, and let's have a nice blizzy.\" This, though now considered a vulgarism, is a retention of the original A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze.\nAnd Angelina Parker, A Glossary of Words Used in Oxfordshire (1876):\nBlizzy, a flaring fire produced by putting on small sticks. Ex. 'Let's 'a a bit of a blizzy afore us goes to bed.'\nAnd from Barzillai Lowsley, A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases (1888):\nBLIZZY.— A blaze. The fire is said to be all of a \"blizzy\" when pieces of wood have been inserted amongst the coal to make it burn cheerfully.\nAnd from G. F. Northall, A Warwickshire Word-book (1896):\nBlizzy, sb. A blaze, a blast, a flare of fire. A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze. Common.\nThey suggest that blizzy survived from the ancient word blysa in numerous localities and might well share a root with the U.S. blizzard.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blizzards",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blizzarding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blizzarded",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "blizzarded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "blizzard (third-person singular simple present blizzards, present participle blizzarding, simple past and past participle blizzarded)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "35 14 11 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 14 12 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 15 11 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kannada translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 15 13 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 14 12 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "flurry"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fall in windy conditions."
],
"id": "en-blizzard-en-verb-YljVdTkt",
"raw_glosses": [
"(impersonal, of snow) To fall in windy conditions."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of snow"
],
"tags": [
"impersonal"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of snow, to fall in windy conditions",
"word": "pyryttää"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "of snow, to fall in windy conditions",
"word": "coriscar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "of snow, to fall in windy conditions",
"word": "escarabanar"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "of snow, to fall in windy conditions",
"word": "tuisata"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblɪ.zəd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈblɪ.zɚd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-blizzard.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/57/En-us-blizzard.ogg/En-us-blizzard.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/En-us-blizzard.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪzə(ɹ)d"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Estherville, Iowa",
"Midlands English",
"blizzard"
],
"word": "blizzard"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms with unknown etymologies",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of Indonesian translations",
"Requests for review of Slovene translations",
"Rhymes:English/ɪzə(ɹ)d",
"Rhymes:English/ɪzə(ɹ)d/2 syllables",
"Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
"Terms with Bashkir translations",
"Terms with Basque translations",
"Terms with Belarusian translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Central Kurdish translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Estonian translations",
"Terms with Faroese translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Ingrian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Kannada translations",
"Terms with Kazakh translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Latvian translations",
"Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Mongolian translations",
"Terms with Navajo translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Shor translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Slovene translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tajik translations",
"Terms with Tatar translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Turkmen translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Uyghur translations",
"Terms with Uzbek translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"Terms with Yiddish translations",
"en:Atmospheric phenomena",
"en:Snow"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "blizzardlike"
},
{
"word": "blizzardly"
},
{
"word": "blizzardous"
},
{
"word": "blizzardy"
},
{
"word": "blizzaster"
},
{
"word": "blizzicane"
},
{
"word": "ground blizzard"
},
{
"word": "superblizzard"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en"
},
"expansion": "Unknown",
"name": "unk"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "blizz",
"t": "violent rainstorm"
},
"expansion": "English blizz (“violent rainstorm”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bliz",
"t": "violent blow"
},
"expansion": "English bliz (“violent blow”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "blysa",
"4": "",
"5": "blaze"
},
"expansion": "Old English blysa (“blaze”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unknown, with various theories as below. Compare English blizz (“violent rainstorm”), dialectal English bliz (“violent blow”); one etymology, from Midlands English dialect, seems to be ultimately from Old English blysa (“blaze”).\nEtymology theories\n* The earliest written use of blizzard as a term to describe a severe snowstorm, spelled blizard, was in the Estherville, Iowa's Northern Vindicator on 23 April 1870. O.C. Bates, neologistic editor of the Northern Vindicator, used it for the terrific snowstorms in the state that spring. He claimed he had picked up the term from locals characterizing a \"Lightning Ellis\", on account of his violent outbursts. One week later it appeared again in the same newspaper, only with the now-common double-z spelling.\n* Blizzard possibly comes from the surname \"Blizzard\" dating back to 1700s(?). Blizzard surname possibly comes from the blizzard one, dating back to the 1500s(?).\n* The word blizzard was used (not in relation to the weather) in America prior to 1870. It had various, roughly associated, now obsolete meanings:\n: Blast with a firearm or cannon (whether one or multiple bullets or pellets uncertain)\n: Verbal blast\n: Blast with a firearm or cannon (single ball or bullet):\n: Blazing fire\n: Heavy or painful physical blow (not involving a firearm)\n: Literal or figurative attack\n: Exclamation (like “the blazes” or “blue blazes\")\n: Blast with multiple firearms or with a firearm loaded with multiple pellets\n: Shot of liquor\n* Probably from the German blitzartig (“very fast, like lightning”)\n* Another version suggests French blesser (to wound), but neither this nor the German can be substantiated. Yet another claims that blizzard derives from English dialect blizzer, meaning \"a blaze\" or \"flash\" (\"Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an' let's have a blizzer,\" - The English Dialect Dictionary) or from blazer (something that blazes or blasts), which gave the early sense \"a volley of firing guns,\" that is, a general \"blazing away.\"\n* Thomas Ratcliffe of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in the March 17, 1888, edition\nBLIZZARD (7th S. v. 106).—The word blizzard is well known through the Midlands, and its cognates are fairly numerous. I have known the word and its kin fully thirty years. Country folk use the word to denote blazing, blasting, blinding, dazzling, or stifling. One who has had to face a severe storm of snow, hail, rain, dust, or wind, would say on reaching shelter that he has \"faced a blizzer,\" or that the storm was \"a regular blizzard.\" A blinding flash of lightning would call forth the exclamation, \"My! that wor a blizzomer!\" or \"That wor a blizzer!\" \"Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an let's have a blizzer\"—a blaze. \"A good blizzom\" = a good blaze. \"That tree is blizzared\" = blasted, withered. As an oath the word is often used, and \"May I be blizzerded\" will be readily understood.\n* A check of some of the Midlands regional glossaries printed in the 1800s finds several entries for blizzy. First, from Anne Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases (1854):\nBLIZZY. A blaze. \"Blow the fire, and let's have a nice blizzy.\" This, though now considered a vulgarism, is a retention of the original A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze.\nAnd Angelina Parker, A Glossary of Words Used in Oxfordshire (1876):\nBlizzy, a flaring fire produced by putting on small sticks. Ex. 'Let's 'a a bit of a blizzy afore us goes to bed.'\nAnd from Barzillai Lowsley, A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases (1888):\nBLIZZY.— A blaze. The fire is said to be all of a \"blizzy\" when pieces of wood have been inserted amongst the coal to make it burn cheerfully.\nAnd from G. F. Northall, A Warwickshire Word-book (1896):\nBlizzy, sb. A blaze, a blast, a flare of fire. A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze. Common.\nThey suggest that blizzy survived from the ancient word blysa in numerous localities and might well share a root with the U.S. blizzard.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blizzards",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "blizzard (plural blizzards)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow."
],
"links": [
[
"snowstorm",
"snowstorm"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A large amount of paperwork."
],
"links": [
[
"paperwork",
"paperwork"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) A large amount of paperwork."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with collocations",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a blizzard of political ads",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:",
"text": "Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large number of similar things."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) A large number of similar things."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblɪ.zəd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈblɪ.zɚd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-blizzard.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/57/En-us-blizzard.ogg/En-us-blizzard.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/En-us-blizzard.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪzə(ɹ)d"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕāṣifa ṯaljiyya",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "عَاصِفَة ثَلْجِيَّة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "damaq",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "دَمَق"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "jnabukʻ",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "ձնաբուք"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "çovğun"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "boran"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "buran",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "буран"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "bisuts"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "mjacjélica",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мяце́ліца"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "burán",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бура́н"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vixura",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "віхура"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "viélica",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вие́лица"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "fǎrtúna",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фърту́на"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "torb"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rufaga"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "暴風雪"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bàofēngxuě",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "暴风雪"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "大風雪"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàfēngxuě",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "大风雪"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "雪災"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xuězāi",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "雪灾"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blizard"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sněhová bouře"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sněhová vichřice"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vánice"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metelice"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "snestorm"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "sneeuwjacht"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumetorm"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kavaódn"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "myräkkä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumimyrsky"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "pyry"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blizzard"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "corisco"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "calistro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escarabana"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cebrisca"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "karbuki",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "ქარბუქი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tovlbuki",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "თოვლბუქი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "tovl-karbuki",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "თოვლ-ქარბუქი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schneesturm"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Blizzard"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chionothýella",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "χιονοθύελλα"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "niphetós",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "νιφετός"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "him āndhī",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "हिम आँधी"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "hóvihar"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "hófúvás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "hóförgeteg"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hríðarbylur"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "nivegoza tempesto"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "myrsky"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "tuisku"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "pyry"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumipyry"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumisää"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumituisku"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "alasvaahto"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lumitormi"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "síobadh sneachta"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tormenta"
},
{
"alt": "もうふぶき",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mōfubuki",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "猛吹雪"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "himapāta",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "ಹಿಮಪಾತ"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "boran",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "боран"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nunbora",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "눈보라"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "kirrêwe",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "کِڕێوە"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "boroon",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бороон"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nigor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ningor"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sniegputenis"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pūga"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lúnja",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лу́ња"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "snéžna búra",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сне́жна бу́ра"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "fortúna",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "форту́на"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "huka kairākau"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "casan šuurga",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "цасан шуурга"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "chííl bił hááyoł"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "snøstorm"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kulâk",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "کولاک"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "burân",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "بوران"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zamieć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zadymka"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "śnieżyca"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nevão"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nevasca"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "viscol"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vifor"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "burán",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бура́н"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "purgá",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пурга́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vʹjúga",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вью́га"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metélʹ",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мете́ль"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "snéžnaja búrja",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сне́жная бу́ря"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metélica",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мете́лица"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cathadh"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cathadh-sneachda"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "мѐћава"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "mèćava"
},
{
"code": "cjs",
"lang": "Shor",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "поран"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blizard"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metelica"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "snehová búrka"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blizzard"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "snežni vihar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ventisca"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tempestad de nieve"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "snöstorm"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "snöoväder"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "büron",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "бӯрон"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "buran",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "буран"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "paa-yú-hì-má",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "พายุหิมะ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "tipi"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "syrgyn"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zametílʹ",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "заметі́ль"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "burán",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бура́н"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "purhá",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пурга́"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zavirjúxa",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "завірю́ха"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "shiwirghan",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "شىۋىرغان"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "boʻron"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "izgʻirin"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"word": "lluwchwynt"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "zaverukhe",
"sense": "severe snowstorm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "זאַווערוכע"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "mountain",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"word": "vuori"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chartománi",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "χαρτομάνι"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "montagna"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "marea"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nawał"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nawała"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "montanha"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "monte"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lavína",
"sense": "figuratively: large amount of paperwork",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лави́на"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "landslide",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large number of similar things",
"word": "vyöry"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "thýella",
"sense": "large number of similar things",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "θύελλα"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large number of similar things",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nawał"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large number of similar things",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nawała"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Estherville, Iowa",
"Midlands English",
"blizzard"
],
"word": "blizzard"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms with unknown etymologies",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of Indonesian translations",
"Requests for review of Slovene translations",
"Rhymes:English/ɪzə(ɹ)d",
"Rhymes:English/ɪzə(ɹ)d/2 syllables",
"Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
"Terms with Bashkir translations",
"Terms with Basque translations",
"Terms with Belarusian translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Central Kurdish translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Estonian translations",
"Terms with Faroese translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Ingrian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Kannada translations",
"Terms with Kazakh translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Latvian translations",
"Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Mongolian translations",
"Terms with Navajo translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Shor translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Slovene translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tajik translations",
"Terms with Tatar translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Turkmen translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Uyghur translations",
"Terms with Uzbek translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"Terms with Yiddish translations",
"en:Atmospheric phenomena",
"en:Snow"
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "flurry"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en"
},
"expansion": "Unknown",
"name": "unk"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "blizz",
"t": "violent rainstorm"
},
"expansion": "English blizz (“violent rainstorm”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bliz",
"t": "violent blow"
},
"expansion": "English bliz (“violent blow”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "blysa",
"4": "",
"5": "blaze"
},
"expansion": "Old English blysa (“blaze”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unknown, with various theories as below. Compare English blizz (“violent rainstorm”), dialectal English bliz (“violent blow”); one etymology, from Midlands English dialect, seems to be ultimately from Old English blysa (“blaze”).\nEtymology theories\n* The earliest written use of blizzard as a term to describe a severe snowstorm, spelled blizard, was in the Estherville, Iowa's Northern Vindicator on 23 April 1870. O.C. Bates, neologistic editor of the Northern Vindicator, used it for the terrific snowstorms in the state that spring. He claimed he had picked up the term from locals characterizing a \"Lightning Ellis\", on account of his violent outbursts. One week later it appeared again in the same newspaper, only with the now-common double-z spelling.\n* Blizzard possibly comes from the surname \"Blizzard\" dating back to 1700s(?). Blizzard surname possibly comes from the blizzard one, dating back to the 1500s(?).\n* The word blizzard was used (not in relation to the weather) in America prior to 1870. It had various, roughly associated, now obsolete meanings:\n: Blast with a firearm or cannon (whether one or multiple bullets or pellets uncertain)\n: Verbal blast\n: Blast with a firearm or cannon (single ball or bullet):\n: Blazing fire\n: Heavy or painful physical blow (not involving a firearm)\n: Literal or figurative attack\n: Exclamation (like “the blazes” or “blue blazes\")\n: Blast with multiple firearms or with a firearm loaded with multiple pellets\n: Shot of liquor\n* Probably from the German blitzartig (“very fast, like lightning”)\n* Another version suggests French blesser (to wound), but neither this nor the German can be substantiated. Yet another claims that blizzard derives from English dialect blizzer, meaning \"a blaze\" or \"flash\" (\"Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an' let's have a blizzer,\" - The English Dialect Dictionary) or from blazer (something that blazes or blasts), which gave the early sense \"a volley of firing guns,\" that is, a general \"blazing away.\"\n* Thomas Ratcliffe of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in the March 17, 1888, edition\nBLIZZARD (7th S. v. 106).—The word blizzard is well known through the Midlands, and its cognates are fairly numerous. I have known the word and its kin fully thirty years. Country folk use the word to denote blazing, blasting, blinding, dazzling, or stifling. One who has had to face a severe storm of snow, hail, rain, dust, or wind, would say on reaching shelter that he has \"faced a blizzer,\" or that the storm was \"a regular blizzard.\" A blinding flash of lightning would call forth the exclamation, \"My! that wor a blizzomer!\" or \"That wor a blizzer!\" \"Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an let's have a blizzer\"—a blaze. \"A good blizzom\" = a good blaze. \"That tree is blizzared\" = blasted, withered. As an oath the word is often used, and \"May I be blizzerded\" will be readily understood.\n* A check of some of the Midlands regional glossaries printed in the 1800s finds several entries for blizzy. First, from Anne Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases (1854):\nBLIZZY. A blaze. \"Blow the fire, and let's have a nice blizzy.\" This, though now considered a vulgarism, is a retention of the original A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze.\nAnd Angelina Parker, A Glossary of Words Used in Oxfordshire (1876):\nBlizzy, a flaring fire produced by putting on small sticks. Ex. 'Let's 'a a bit of a blizzy afore us goes to bed.'\nAnd from Barzillai Lowsley, A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases (1888):\nBLIZZY.— A blaze. The fire is said to be all of a \"blizzy\" when pieces of wood have been inserted amongst the coal to make it burn cheerfully.\nAnd from G. F. Northall, A Warwickshire Word-book (1896):\nBlizzy, sb. A blaze, a blast, a flare of fire. A.-Sax. blysa, a blaze. Common.\nThey suggest that blizzy survived from the ancient word blysa in numerous localities and might well share a root with the U.S. blizzard.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blizzards",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blizzarding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blizzarded",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "blizzarded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "blizzard (third-person singular simple present blizzards, present participle blizzarding, simple past and past participle blizzarded)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English impersonal verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To fall in windy conditions."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(impersonal, of snow) To fall in windy conditions."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of snow"
],
"tags": [
"impersonal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblɪ.zəd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈblɪ.zɚd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-blizzard.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/57/En-us-blizzard.ogg/En-us-blizzard.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/En-us-blizzard.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪzə(ɹ)d"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of snow, to fall in windy conditions",
"word": "pyryttää"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "of snow, to fall in windy conditions",
"word": "coriscar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "of snow, to fall in windy conditions",
"word": "escarabanar"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "of snow, to fall in windy conditions",
"word": "tuisata"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Estherville, Iowa",
"Midlands English",
"blizzard"
],
"word": "blizzard"
}
Download raw JSONL data for blizzard meaning in English (32.5kB)
{
"called_from": "translations/324",
"msg": "possible sense number in translation item: Slovene: __IGNORE__ (1)",
"path": [
"blizzard"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "blizzard",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.