Saturday 10 December 2016

Wint

Wint: adjective. Describing cold and unpleasant weather, usually accompanied by snow or sleet/hail and oftentimes strong and biting winds. Also an archaic term used to describe the weather in November. Antonym of the word 'summ'. First cited in a poem written by Bede that has now been lost, but a record of the word being used in that poem had been found in a early 16th century glossary found in a dusty cupboard in Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, which later burned down in 1854 in a unusual fire constrained solely to said dusty cupboard, from which the book hadn't been moved for some reason.

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