snowman

English

Snowman.

Etymology

snow +‎ -man

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnəʊ.mæn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊ.mæn/

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Noun

snowman (plural snowmen)

1. 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).
2. (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
3. (golf) A score of eight on a single hole.
4. An attractive but heartless man (similar to ice queen).
   • 1961, John D. Loudermilk in the song "The Great Snowman"

     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'.

Hypernyms

• snow figure, snowperson

Derived terms

• abominable snowman
• snowman abnormality
• snowman sign

Related terms

• snow angel

Translations

figure made of snow

• Arabic: إِنْسَان ثَلْجِيّ m (ʔinsān ṯaljiyy), تِمْثَال ثَلْجِيّ m (timṯāl ṯaljiyy)
• Armenian: ձնեմարդ (hy) (jnemard)
• Azerbaijani: qar adam
• Belarusian: сне́жная ба́ба f (snjéžnaja bába), снегаві́к m (snjehavík)
• Bulgarian: сне́жен чове́к m (snéžen čovék)
• Catalan: ninot de neu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雪人 (syut³ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 雪人 (zh) (xuěrén)

• Cornish: den ergh m
• Czech: sněhulák m
• Danish: snemand (da) c
• Dutch: sneeuwpop (nl) m or f, sneeuwman (nl) m
• Erzya: ловатя (lovaťa)
• Esperanto: neĝhomo
• Estonian: lumememm
• Finnish: lumiukko (fi)
• French: bonhomme de neige (fr) m
• Georgian: თოვლიანი (tovliani)
• German: Schneemann (de) m
• Greek: χιονάνθρωπος (el) m (chionánthropos)
• Hawaiian: kanaka hau
• Hebrew: בובת שלג f (bubát shéleg), אִישׁ שֶׁלֶג (he) m (ish shéleg)
• Hungarian: hóember (hu)
• Icelandic: snjókarl (is) m
• Irish: fear sneachta m
• Italian: pupazzo di neve m, fantoccio di neve m
• Japanese: 雪だるま (ja) (ゆきだるま, yukidaruma), 雪達磨 (ゆきだるま, yukidaruma)
• Korean: 눈사람 (ko) (nunsaram)
• Latvian: sniegavīrs m
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• Lithuanian: senis besmegenis m, sniego senis m
• Low German: Sneemann m
• Luxembourgish: Schnéimännchen m, Schnéimann m
• Macedonian: сне́шко n (snéško)
• Maltese: borrinu m
• Mongolian: цасан хүн (casan xün)
• Navajo: yas hastiin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snømann m

  Nynorsk: snømann m

• Persian: آدم برفی (fa) (âdam-barfi)
• Polish: bałwan (pl) m
• Portuguese: boneco de neve m
• Romanian: om de zăpadă m
• Russian: сне́жная ба́ба (ru) f (snéžnaja bába), снегови́к (ru) m (snegovík)
• Scottish Gaelic: bodach-sneachda m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: снеговић m, сње́говић m

  Roman: snegović m, snjégović (sh) m

• Slovak: snehuliak m
• Slovene: snežak (sl) m
• Spanish: muñeco de nieve m
• Swedish: snögubbe (sv) c
• Tagalog: taong niyebe
• Tajik: бобои барфӣ (bobo-yi barfi)
• Thai: ตุ๊กตาหิมะ (dtúk-gà-dtaa-hì-má)
• Turkish: kardan adam
• Ukrainian: снігова́ ба́ба (uk) f (snihová bába), снігови́к m (snihovýk)
• Uzbek: qorbobo (uz)
• Vietnamese: người tuyết
• Welsh: dyn eira m

See also

• iceman
• ☃

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN