I have a friend in West Virgina who tells me they are getting Mollywalloped by snow out there. I have never heard this word before and I need to use it more often!

What do you guys call a big storm or a lot of snow?

snowmageddon!

Slobberknocked?

Nor’easter (often)

Polar vortex

(Actually I just like the phrase, I'm not sure what the true locals call big storms. AM would know.)

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Originally posted by Nina:
Polar vortex

(Actually I just like the phrase, I'm not sure what the true locals call big storms. AM would know.)

Actually, not sure! Depends on what kind. Snowstorm (old school). Snowmageddon or Snowpocalypse (new school). Ice storm aka freezing rain (what we had yesterday). Silver thaw (ice on top of snow, melting and refreezing). So many names, depending on how awful it is!

So many people without power this morning. Ice taking down trees taking down lines, blowing transformers. We’re lucky so far, knock on wood!

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:
I have a friend in West Virgina who tells me they are getting Mollywalloped by snow out there. I have never heard this word before and I need to use it more often!

What do you guys call a big storm or a lot of snow?

Is that the opposite of Mollycoddled?

I have no word for a big snowstorm.

I've heard a big rainstorm called a frogstrangler or a gullywasher.

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I've heard a big rainstorm called a frogstrangler or a gullywasher.

or ...

a cow peeing on a flat rock

or ... in Miami where I grew up

a palmetto pounder

Nothing to do with snow, but rather with regionalisms.

I suspect it's not just Pennsylvania slang, but before moving here I certainly had never before heard "cattywumpus".
It sure fits my house, though! Since buying it (against my will*) it's been described that way far more than the average house.

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*When the two year rental house we lived in went on the market owing to the landlords' divorce, I was not at all sorry to leave it. Unfortunately, my son's severe allergies and asthma (50% chance of survival predicted by his doctors) led in a different direction. When signing a lease to a newly constructed house, I looked up from the contract to see my little son turning blue.

I only narrowly escaped from the lease, face to face with the terrible realization that we had to buy our rental. It was a "known evil" and if another house had once been home to a cat (as a single example), he wouldn't have survived it. He had to be given emergency medicine right in the doctor's office against "essence of cat" (or whatever they tested him with as part of the 50 back pricks on which he scored highest - most allergic.

You can't rent or purchase a house on trial! His life was at stake. Worse still, mortgage interest rates that year were 14%!
So we had to purchase this cattywumpus house. I gather it means kind of constructed hodge podge, not linear. *sigh*

My friend from Lubbock used to use “frog strangler”.

https://idioms.thefreedictiona...m/Molly+whop+someone

Interesting, it seems "molly wallop" is not snow-specific.

No, I don't have any unusual expression to describe big snow storm.

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:

What do you guys call a big storm or a lot of snow?

Thursday.

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Originally posted by BeeLady:

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:

What do you guys call a big storm or a lot of snow?

Thursday.