snow

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
snow/snəʊ/

▶noun

• 1 atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.

  ■ (snows) falls of snow.

• 2 a mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal.

• 3 informal cocaine.

▶verb

• 1 (it snows, it is snowing, etc.) snow falls.

  ■ (be snowed in/up) be confined or blocked by a large quantity of snow.

• 2 (be snowed under) be overwhelmed with a large quantity of something, especially work.

• 3 N. Amer. informal mislead or charm with elaborate and insincere words.

– derivatives
snowily adverb,
snowiness noun,
snowless adjective,
snowy adjective (snowier, snowiest).

– origin OE snāw, of Gmc origin.