flindrikin

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flindrikin (FLIN-dri-kuhn) - (Scot.) n., something light and unsubstantial; (fig.) a slight snow-shower.


A "flimsy" fall of snow. This seems to have been coined by adding -kin to a Middle Dutch word for butterfly.

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