Onding

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onding (ON-ding) - (Scot.) n., a heavy continuous fall of rain or snow; an assault, attack, onset of noise.


And verbal versions. Sometimes Scots takes a post-verbal on and prefixes it instead (sometimes with a hyphen) -- so this is a snow so hard it "dings on" things.

---L.

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