What is the difference between snowball and snowman?
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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
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.
To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.
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.
A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
(slang) A playing card with the rank of nine.
(golf) A score of eight on a single hole.
(idiomatic) An attractive but heartless man (similar to ice queen).
* 1961 , in the song "The Great Snowman"
As nouns the difference between snowball and snowman
is that snowball is 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 while snowman is a humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).As a verb snowball
is to rapidly grow out of proportion or control.snowball
English
(wikipedia snowball)Noun
(en noun)- Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...
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 treeVerb
(en verb)- The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
Derived terms
* snowballingsnowman
English
Noun
- A few years ago there lived a lover By the name of Jimmy Jones Who really snowed the girls and left them cold And gained the title of 'The Great Snowman'.
Antonyms
* snowwomanHypernyms
* snow figure, snowpersonDerived terms
* abominable snowman * snowman abnormality * snowman signSee also
* iceman *References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 English nouns with irregular plurals