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weather-wise en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From weather + wise (“having wisdom”).

Meanings

  1. Skilled in predicting changes in the weather.
    • He glanced with a weatherwise eye at the sky now falling into evening tones - placid and still. "Drought's breaking, but this weather ought to hold for a bit." 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178:
  2. (figuratively) Skilled in predicting changes in conditions, such as of public opinion.

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weather-wise en · ADV · etymology 2

Etymology

From weather + -wise.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) With respect to weather.
    • Early in December, a rotten day weatherwise, Charley Partanna, CEO of the Prizzi family, sat behind his desk 1988, Richard Condon, Prizzi's glory, page 1:
    • Newfoundland is at the end of the line weather-wise, the last stop for storms that come across the continent or up the Atlantic seaboard 2000, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir:

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Translations (1)

nb værmessig (regarding the weather)