What do you call nasty, leftover snow?

'Snow' doesn't do it justice. It's no longer snow, just like a french fry is no longer just a potato.

But that gunk, that black mass of vileness that builds up on street corners and sidewalks as winter progresses, needs a name because it isn't just snow any longer.

Boston Globe correspondent Michael Andor Brodeur raised the question in his column this week, and he has some ideas what word or phrase to use for the blob of nastiness left behind by Mother Nature, including:

Snoffal
Frostblight
Flurryslurry
Thawmit
Cambridge Crude
Springslop
Guttermulch
Streetloam
Blizcharge
Pure Evil

Brodeur is still looking for suggestions at his Twitter.

After this winter, I'm partial to something that is decidedly not family friendly to say.



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