sleety

Etymology

sleet + -y

adj

  1. Covered in sleet; full of sleet.
    sleety weather
    Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world! 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 17
    The little doctor threw off his sleety cloak and hat in the lobby, and stood before the officer fresh and puffing, and a little flustered and dazzled after his romp with the wind. 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

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