From heller to snuzzling, the language of winter has always kept pace with our reaction to it 🧊 susie_dent for ipaperviews
“Winter” itself took its name from an ancient word for “wet” and “white”. Its mornings bring “brumes” and “clinkabells” , and – if we’re lucky – copious amounts of “apricity”, a word I will never tire of using for the warmth of the sun on a chilly day. If it is a “heller”, however, it is so bone-grindingly cold that the sun doesn’t stand a chance – this description from the early 20th century is a direct reference to those damned regions of Hell.
This is the time when we are intended to shelter and, as the Scots would have it, “coorie” or hunker down. “No animal”, we hear in Kenneth Grahame’s, “is ever expected to anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter”, thus givingto all dormitive creatures to retreat to our “hibernacle” or winter quarters. If no den is immediately apparent, then we can choose to “latibulate”: find a corner and hide there.
When you come across that niveous landscape, you might leave fresh footprints by “crumping” across it – a highly specific word for happily crunching across lightly compressed snow. If you’re a reluctant traveller, on the other hand, then “mogging” is the laborious trudging over icy ground.
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