talk about dialect restriction!

[Laurence Horn]

I was listening to an audiobook of Annie Proulx's _Shipping News_
from a few years back and noticed that one of the Newfoundlanders
referred to waking up and noticing that the day "looked snowly".  I
thought this was an interesting turn (sure enough, the blizzard came
later in the day, even though it was May), but couldn't find any
listing for "snowly" in the OED.  Googling didn't help, until I tried
googling "looking snowly" and found exactly one google hit, for an
entry in a 1990 Dictionary of Newfoundland English.

LH

P.S. Does anyone remember what it's called when you get a single g-hit?

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