Unusual Words Defined: A - Z (Part P)

A continuation of the series.

Pogonip

\POG-uh-nip\

noun;1. An ice fog that forms in the mountain valleys of the western U.S.

From: Lovely Little Lexemes

P.S. With time on my hands, I decided to look up the word in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary (partly because of LLL's post). While the OED did not have a definition for pogonip, here is one of their suggested words and its definition, which I find strangely relevant:

pogonic, adj. 1858
Of or relating to a beard.

Like an ice fog that can form in the valley (bottom) of a mountain, a beard can form on the bottom of a chin.

And that beard can form ice...