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Snower vs Shower - What's the difference?

snower | shower |

As nouns the difference between snower and shower

is that snower is something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow while shower is a brief fall of precipitation.

As a verb shower is

to spray with (a specified liquid).

snower

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.
  • * , as explained in Alanna Nash, The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley , Simon and Schuster (2003), ISBN 978-0-7432-1301-1, page 155:
  • ¶ The coup de grâce of Parker’s little folly was the club’s slickly produced rule book, which the Colonel called a Confidential Report Dealing with Advanced Techniques of Member Snowers , prepared by a team “notably skilled in evasiveness and ineptitude.”
  • * 1971 , John Oliver Killens, The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd , Coffee House Press (2002), ISBN 978-1-56689-119-6, page 148:
  • There was snow out on the Harlem streets, and inside the Lovejoys,(SIC) Ben Ali did a snow job on her Highness, Lady Daphne. And it required a lot of snowing by a champeen snower ; the Lady was nobody’s fool.
  • * 1979 , Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao (translators), , New Directions Publishing (2004), ISBN 978-0-8112-1552-7, page 301:
  • Hsin-Mei said, “ When I was in America, people used to call the Foreign Students Summer Club the ‘Big Three Conference’: the show-offs, the suckers, and the—uh—the girl-snowers .”
  • * 1986 , Jane Louise Curry, The Lotus Cup , Atheneum, ISBN 9780689503849, page 43:
  • Maybe, Corry thought, that was what gardeners tended to in wintertime: snow. Would that make them “snowers ?” or “snowmen?”
  • *{{quote-newsgroup
  • , year=2003 , date=December 7 , author=SDicato , title=Lobsters , newsgroup=rec.motorcycles.harley citation , passage=Cant ride with all the snow but took a walk on the beach after kicking ass with the 8hp snower blower...picked up 45 lobsters..nice eating all the tails at once }}
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  • , year=2004 , date=December 26 , author=Wolf Kirchmeir , title=Re: Knowledge's Discretion , newsgroup=comp.ai.philosophy citation , passage=Mind you, when I was a child, I was told a charming story about Frau Holle, who was the snower - when she shook out the duvets of the people who lived above the sky, the feathers that flew came to earth as snow. }}
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  • , year=2006 , date=December 12 , author="Stormin Mormon" , title=Re: FLOMAX for 2 stage snow blower , newsgroup=alt.home.repair citation , passage=My blow snower is a very old Toro which requires the gas oil mix.}}

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    shower

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brief fall of precipitation.
  • :
  • A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
  • An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
  • : (qualifier)
  • : (especially US)
  • A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
  • :
  • A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
  • :
  • :
  • #A bridal shower.
  • #:
  • #A baby shower.
  • #:
  • (label) A battle, an attack; conflict.
  • *:
  • *:With this I maye be sure to come sauf / and goo sauf / and that the quene shal haue her lyberte as she had before / and neuer for no thynge that hath ben surmysed afore this tyme / she neuer fro this day stande in no peryll / for els sayd sir launcelot I dare auenture me to kepe her from an harder shoure than euer I kepte her
  • A shower of shit.
  • *1956 , (w, Private's Progress) (motion picture):
  • *:
  • (Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier)
  • *1991 , Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland , page 208] ([http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226240718 University of Chicago Press; ISBN 9780226240701, 9780226240718)
  • *:It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.
  • Synonyms
    * (device for bathing) shower bath * (instance of use) shower bath
    See also
    * (wikipedia "shower") *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
  • To bathe using a shower.
  • to bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
  • * 1919 , :
  • The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.
    Synonyms
    * (bathe using a shower) have a shower (British), take a shower (especially US)

    Derived terms

    * aluminum shower * golden shower * power shower * send someone to the showers * shower attachment * shower bath * shower cap * shower curtain * shower gel * showerhead * shower rail * shower unit * showery * snow shower, snowshower * sun shower * thought shower

    Etymology 2

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who shows.
  • (slang) A man whose penis appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect.
  • Antonyms
    * (man whose penis appears roughly full size both flaccid and erect) grower

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