snowball

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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.
2. A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
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.

Adj

Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state.
2. (intransitive) To play at throwing snowballs.
3. (transitive) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
4. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth.

Conceptos

bola de nieve

bola

Sinónimos

lump

clod

Abronia elliptica

sweet sand verbena

guelder rose

mushroom

🍄

puff

spread out

swell

swell up

tumesce

balloon

🎈

snow globe

bloat

crescendo

distend

Traducciones

Schneeball

boule de neige

sneeuwbal

palla di neve

χιονόμπαλα

boule

Klumpen

grumo

palla

zolla

bola de neu

كرة الثلج

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsnəʊbɔːl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con escocés: snawbaw

Cognado con alemán: Schneeball

Cognado con luxemburgués: Schnéiball

Cognado con neerlandés: sneeuwbal

Cognado con afrikáans: sneeubal

Cognado con limburgués: snieëbal

Cognado con frisón occidental: sniebal

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: Sneebaal

Cognado con sueco: snöboll

Cognado con Elfdalian: sniųoboll

Cognado con danés: snebold

Cognado con noruego bokmal: snøball

Cognado con noruego nynorsk: snøball

Cognado con islandés: snjóbolti

In summary

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.