David Reamer5d ago
As winter lingers so cruelly, I decided to look into the origins of the idiom "cabin fever." It is a more recent term than I expected, with surprising turns including President William Henry Harrison and hard cider. Below is a cabin in 1898 Beaver City. https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2026/03/22/a-condition-born-of-cold-snow-darkness-and-distance-the-history-of-cabin-fever/
Show threadChris Hayes

@ANC_Historian interesting that the word "gelid" has fallen out of use. First time I'm seeing it.

For anyone reading this, it's adjective to describe something extremely cold or icy. The atmosphere in a cabin in the middle of an Alaskan winter might be described as a gelid gloom.

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Show threadDavid Reamer5d ago
@chris There were so many other older quotes I couldn't use as they included too many other words that begged their own definition/explanation.