Meaning

6 senses
  1. 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.

    Schneeball

    снежо́кsnežók, сне́жный комsnéžnyj kom

    сні́жкаsnížka

  2. A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.

    снежо́кsnežók

    сні́жкаsnížka

  3. (figuratively)Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).

  4. A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.

  5. (US)A type of ice dessert: a snow cone.

  6. A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.

    It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.

    ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce

Examples

55 sentences
  1. Tom threw a snowball at Mary.

    ruТом кинул в Мэри снежком. — marafon

    deTom warf mit einem Schneeball nach Maria. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Students were throwing snowballs at each other.

  3. Tom and Mary threw snowballs at me.

  4. Why don't we have a snowball fight?

    deLaßt uns doch eine Schneeballschlacht machen! — Waldelfe

  5. Tom and I threw snowballs at each other.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
ball of snow:
Русский
By meaning 1
ball of snow:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
ball of snow:

Origin

From Middle English snoweball, snoweballe, snaweballe, snayballe, equivalent to snow + bal

From Middle English snoweball, snoweballe, snaweballe, snayballe, equivalent to snow + ball. Cognate with Scots snawbaw, German Schneeball, Luxembourgish Schnéiball, Dutch sneeuwbal, Afrikaans sneeubal, Limburgish snieëbal, West Frisian sniebal, Saterland Frisian Sneebaal, Sneebal, Swedish snöboll, Elfdalian sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.

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Forms

plural: snowballs
Singularsnowball
Pluralsnowballs

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

16 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • threw snowballs at
  • snowballs at each
  • threw snowballs

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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