snowball

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

palla di neve

palla

grumo

zolla

crescere a vista d’occhio

neve palla

sinonimi

lump

clod

Abronia elliptica

sweet sand verbena

guelder rose

mushroom

🍄

puff

spread out

swell

swell up

tumesce

balloon

🎈

snow globe

bloat

crescendo

distend

Traduzioni

Schneeball

boule de neige

sneeuwbal

χιονόμπαλα

bola de nieve

boule

bola de neu

Klumpen

bola

bola de neve

كرة الثلج

χιονόσφαιρα

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈsnəʊbɔːl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine scozzese: snawbaw

Affine tedesco: Schneeball

Affine lussemburghese: Schnéiball

Affine olandese: sneeuwbal

Affine afrikaans: sneeubal

Affine limburghese: snieëbal

Affine frisone occidentale: sniebal

Affine saterfriesisch: Sneebaal

Affine svedese: snöboll

Affine Elfdalian: sniųoboll

Affine danese: snebold

Affine norvegese bokmål: snøball

Affine norvegese nynorsk: snøball

Affine islandese: 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.