snowman

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by Equinox (talk | contribs) as of 23:16, 15 December 2022.
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Snowman.

Etymology

  • snow +‎ -man.
  • (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈsnəʊ.mæn/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈsnoʊ.mæn/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊmæn, -oʊmæn

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. (baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
    • 1996 June 3, Buster Olney, “Chat with Sparky helps 'useless' Johnson   Dejected O's manager gets lift from ex-Tigers boss”, in The Baltimore Sun‎[1] (quoting B. J. Surhoff):
      [The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.
    • 2005 June 26, Dayton Daily News‎[2], page 44:
      "Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said. "Then Stone had to stay out there and suck it up for us […] "
    • 2018, Andre Huu, The Round of Your Life: A Book on Golf and Life, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
      For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.
  3. (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
  4. (rare) An attractive but heartless man.
    Coordinate term: ice queen
    • 1961, John D. Loudermilk (lyrics and music), “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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=snowman&oldid=70419408"