Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity!
Rainified - rain*i*fied adj [EDD “Inclined to rain, like rain”] Cf -ified Likely to rain. 1918 DN 5.15 Martha’s Vineyard MA, Rainified. Rainy appearance of sky. “It’s looked kind o’ rainified all the morning.” So far as I know, limited to one individual, who is rather given to coinages. 1953 Randolph-Wilson Down in Holler 45 Ozarks, Speaking of the prospects of rain, a woman said to me, “It sure don’t look very rainified this evenin’.”
“Hey, does it look rainified out there?”
“We were going to grill out tonight, but it got all rainified.”
“Grab your umbrella. It’s another rainified day today.”
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Works Cited
Cassidy, Frederic G. Chief Editor. Dictionary Of American Regional English. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. Print