![]() ![]() Every little snowflake is different and has its own identity.”Īnd think of what happens to a snowflake once you get your hands on it. And the other side is the special side of it. It just fades away as soon as people are nasty to it. It melts under the heat, it has no backbone, no spine, no guts, no spirit, anything. Its power, Green said, comes largely from that duality. ![]() It just reflects the fact that there are huge and very strongly felt divisions in both our societies.”Īs insults go, it’s hard to think of one that so clearly conveys so many flaws at once: Fragility and self-importance, weakness and self-delusion. There’s always been one - my world, slang, is one of the great proponents and coiners of it - but it seems to me that these kind of very vicious, really, because they’re not meant with a laugh, these quite vicious insults have sprung up specifically within these two political areas, these explosions, that happened last year… This kind of very hard insult has come out of it. In the aftermath of Trump and Brexit, there has swelled up this vocabulary of vilification. The rise of the insult, Green continued, “is something, actually, that’s bigger than snowflake. “It’s a very specific, very politicized insult.” “I think it’s gone beyond slang,” said Jonathon Green, slang lexicographer and author of several dictionaries of slang. These people can often be seen congregating in ‘safe zones’ on college campuses.” A more aggressive definition went up the following month: “An entitled millenial SJW-tard who runs to her “safe space” to play with stress toys and coloring books when she gets ‘triggered” by various innocuous “microsaggressions’. You can see this linguistic evolution play out on Urban Dictionary: The 2008 definition of snowflake was “a person who think they are OMGUNIQUE!, but is, in fact, just like everyone else.” That was redefined in May of 2016 as “an overly sensitive person, incapable of dealing with any opinions that differ from their own. The insult expanded to encompass not just the young but liberals of all ages it became the epithet of choice for right-wingers to fling at anyone who could be accused of being too easily offended, too in need of “safe spaces,” too fragile. Helicopter parented to the hilt, millennials supposedly graduated from college (into a dismal economy with unprecedented mountains of student debt) too coddled for this cruel world, ill-equipped to face life’s indignities with dignity.īut as 2016 dawned, snowflake made its way to the mainstream and, in the process, evolved into something more vicious. ![]() It was a largely non-partisan slight - a mean, though not hateful, dig at millennials perceived to have an outsize sense of their own individuality and, by extension, importance. Send us feedback about these examples.Before last year, snowflake-as-slang lingered on the fringes of the lexicon. ![]() These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'snowflake.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2021 Simply open the foil packet at the bottom corner (with the tiny snowflake), and pop it on! - Kat Hillman | Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022 Glide on the ice among the downtown skyscrapers and pine trees while festive tunes and snowflake lighting make the mood merry. 2022 This new drive-through attraction is a mile long and includes 2 million lights synced to holiday music, a 50-foot-tall tree, a 25-foot-tall gingerbread house, a 16-foot-tall snowflake and seven tunnels. 2022 Prior odds of a shower or snowflake have dwindled to an extremely small chance or a raindrop. 2022 There are also festive options, including snowflake and Christmas elk patterns. 2022 For an assortment of the Oak Cliff chocolatier’s goodies, get the gift box ($30) which includes 2-ounce of Sea Salt Pistachio Bark, 2 ounces of bean-to-bar chocolate, a chocolate snowflake, and a white chocolate snowman. 2023 For a new spin on a personalized ornament, try this wooden one that looks like a snowflake but has your name inside. Recent Examples on the Web Rain looks to move in from west to east around 9 to 11 a.m., perhaps briefly mixing with a spotty snowflake or sleet pellet north and west of D.C. ![]()
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