snowball Noun
( en noun)
A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.
A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
(figuratively) Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
* 2005 , Eldad Ben-Yosef, The Evolution of the US Airline Industry
- Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...
A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
(US) A type of ice dessert.
A type of cake.
Derived terms
* a snowball’s chance]], a , a [[snowball's chance in hell, snowball’s chance in hell
* besnowball
* cast snowballs
* Chinese snowball
* New York snowball
* snowball bush
* snowball cactus
* Snowball Earth hypothesis
* snowball effect
* snowball fight
* snowball hammer
* snowball marches
* snowball opacity
* snowball prime
* snowball sampling
* snowball tree
Verb
( en verb)
To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.
- The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
To play at throwing snowballs.
To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
(sexual slang ) To receive a man's ejaculate in one's mouth, and then to pass it back and forth between one's mouth and his.
Derived terms
* snowballing
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egg Etymology 1
From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
(countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.
(uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.
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(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm
, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}
Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
(NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
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In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.
Verb
( en verb)
To throw eggs at.
To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.
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See also
* caviar
* roe
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Verb
( en verb)
To encourage, incite.
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