What're Words For, Part 18

Well, winter has sure come-a screaming into the Philadelphia area these last few days. We had been cruising along this winter with temperatures in the 50s and sometimes 60s, but the last couple of days have found temps bottoming out in the teens, and adding in the wind, the temperature has been sitting in the "minus" numbers. Brrrrrrrrr......

I guess I should start getting used to it what with my impending move back to my home state of Maine this coming July.

Today's word? Has something to do with it being cold....

Word: Bahmy (Adj.) balmy

Definition: Use this for irony. Said of fiercely cold temperatures.

Usage:

"It was cold up there on Spider Lake?"

"Bahmy. Thirty-five below on the last day of February. Never did get much fishing done."

"Well, wan't no blackflies to bother ye."

(Definition from: "How To Talk Yankee", by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

I guess you could say that Philadelphia has been a bit bahmy these last few days. And judging by the forecast for the next several more days, we'd better get used to it.