snowflake

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.
 * 2) Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus, having white flowers.
 * 3) The snow bunting,.
 * 4)  Someone who believes they are particularly unique and special.
 * 5)  Someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.
 * 6) * 2017, Dylan Kyle, quoted in "Campus Voices", The Mugdown (Texas A&M University), August 2017, page 15:
 * When have words ever hurt anyone? The triggered snowflakes at this liberal university are trying to literally murder our freedom of speech.
 * 1) * 2017, Ben Brill, "What's wrong with saying 'Happy holidays' this December", High Tide (Redondo Union High School), 20 October 2017, page 7:
 * Fox News pundits claim to be upset because companies are choosing to embrace the "holidays" rather than "Christmas" to avoid offending any liberal snowflakes.
 * 1)  A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.
 * 2) Something that is unique in every presentation.
 * 3)  A Caucasian person.
 * 4)  Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
 * 1)  A type of lesion that appears as scattered white-brown spots under high magnification light microscopy.
 * 2) Something that is unique in every presentation.
 * 3)  A Caucasian person.
 * 4)  Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
 * 1) Something that is unique in every presentation.
 * 2)  A Caucasian person.
 * 3)  Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
 * 1)  A Caucasian person.
 * 2)  Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)
 * 1)  Someone (usually white) who was opposed to the abolition of slavery (Missouri, 1860s)

Usage notes

 * The pejorative sense of "an overly sensitive person" arose from the idea that no two snowflakes are alike. "Snowflake" as a derogatory term was popularized by its use in the 1996 novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk (see quotation above), but the insult had existed for a significant amount of time prior to this, although not in popular use. In recent years, the meaning has expanded from "a person who believes they are unique" to also denote someone who is too sensitive and is easily offended, based on conceptions of snowflakes' and.

Translations

 * Albanian: flok bore
 * Arabic: رُقَاقَةْ اَلثَّلْج
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: qar bağı
 * Basque: elur-maluta
 * Belarusian: сняжы́нка
 * Breton: fulenn erc'h fulennoù erc'h, malzenn erc'h  -où erc'h
 * Bulgarian: снежи́нка
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: снежочка
 * Catalan: floc de neu,
 * Chagatai: لب لب قار
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 雪花
 * Dungan: щүәхуар
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Classical Tibetan: ཁ་འདབ
 * Czech: sněhová vločka
 * Danish: snefnug
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, neĝfloko
 * Estonian: lumehelves
 * Faroese: flykra, kavaflykra, snjóflykra, flyksingur, flyksa
 * Finnish:
 * French: flocon de neige
 * Galician:, , baloco, falampo, melendro, zalopa,
 * Georgian: ფანტელი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νιφάς
 * Greenlandic: qanik, aputsiaq
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew: פתית–שלג
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: lumihiutale
 * Ingush: чил
 * Interlingua: flocco de neve
 * Irish: calóg shneachta, cáithnín sneachta
 * Italian: fiocco di neve
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: қар бүршігі, қар қылауы, қар ұшқыны, қылау
 * Khmer: ល្អងព្រិល
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کِلووبەفر
 * Kyrgyz: кар кыйкымы, кар бүртүгү
 * Lakota: ičháȟota
 * Lao: ເກັດຫິມະ
 * Latin: nivis pluma
 * Latvian: sniegpārsla
 * Lithuanian: snaigė
 * Lü: ᦡᦸᧅᧈᦉᦏᦱᧇ, ᦵᦙᧆᦉᦏᦱᧇ
 * Luxembourgish: Schnéiflack
 * Macedonian: снегулка
 * Malay: daun salji
 * Manchu: ᠯᠠᠪᠰᠠᠨ
 * Manx: floag, floag niaghtee, lhiannag niaghtee
 * Maori: kapu, kapu huka
 * Mongolian: цасан ширхэг
 * Classical Mongolian: ᠯᠠᠪᠰᠠ
 * Navajo: shoh dikʼání
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian: snøfnugg
 * Persian: برف دانه
 * Polish: ,
 * Pontic Greek: πατούλιν
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, fulg de zăpadă, fulg de nea
 * Romansch: floc da naiv,  flocca da naiv,  scrotta da neiv,  floc da nev,  scrota da nev,  mina da naiv,  gnoua da naiv,  flöch da naiv,  pandschè
 * Russian:
 * Saterland Frisian: Sneeflokke
 * Scottish Gaelic: bleideag, pleòiteag , cleiteag , slathag , lòineag , clàdan , clàideag , clòimhdeag , clòimhneag , leòmag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: снегуља, снијегуља, снегуљица, снијегуљица, пахуљица
 * Roman: snegulja, snijegulja, sneguljica, snijeguljica,
 * Shor: қарчақ
 * Slovak: snehové páperie, snehová vločka
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: карычак
 * Spanish: copo de nieve,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: барфак, зарраи барф
 * Thai: เกล็ดหิมะ
 * Turkish: kar tanesi
 * Ukrainian: сніжи́нка
 * Uyghur: قار ئۇچقۇنى
 * Uzbek: qor uchquni
 * Vietnamese: bông tuyết (葻雪), hoa tuyết (花雪)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: pluen eira
 * Yakut: хаар кыырпаҕа
 * Yiddish: שנייעלע
 * Yup'ik: qanuk


 * Bulgarian: блатно кокиче
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 雪片蓮
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: hvidblomme
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: neĝborulo
 * Finnish:, kevätkello
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1) To fall in the manner of a snowflake.
 * 2)  To arrange (data) into a.
 * 1)  To arrange (data) into a.