connixation

English

Etymology

Humorous alteration of conflagration, the -flagr- having been substituted with Latin nix (“snow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒnɪksˈeɪʃən/

Noun

connixation (plural connixations)

1. (rare) A large, smothering, and destructive blizzard.
   • 1762, Horace Walpole, Private correspondence, page 136:

     As we have never had a rainbow to assure us that the world shall not be snowed to death, I thought last night was the general connixation.