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Yeti vs Snowball - What's the difference?

yeti | snowball |

As nouns the difference between yeti and snowball

is that yeti is yeti while 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.

As a verb snowball is

to rapidly grow out of proportion or control.

yeti

English

(wikipedia yeti)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

    • Synonyms

    * abominable snowman

    See also

    * bigfoot * sasquatch * yowie ----

    snowball

    English

    (wikipedia 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