Sometimes, it seems like the English language just doesn’t have enough words to correctly describe the winter inconveniences we experience in Canada. So we made up a few portmanteaus to correct this oversight! Here are six winter words that don’t exist, but should.
1) Ice damage = “Icemage”
Use it in a sentence! “Icemage is going to screw up our dock if we don’t remove it by December.”
2) Snow-related disaster = “Snosaster”
Use it in a sentence! “We lost our eavestroughs to a snosaster.”
3) Frostbite scare = “Frostbare”
Use it in a sentence! “I couldn’t feel my fingers for, like, two hours after our hike. Total frostbare.”
4) Window condensation = “Windensation”
Use it in a sentence! “We had such bad windensation last year that we bought another dehumidifier.”
5) Snowmobile fail = “Snowmobail”
Use it in a sentence! “Check out this epic snowmobail I found on YouTube!”
6) When it’s not really winter anymore, but it’s not yet spring = “Sprinter”
Use it in a sentence! “That groundhog is garbage. It’s still Sprinter.”
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