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snower

UK/ˈsnəʊə/

snower noun: something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.

Noun

snower (plural snowers)

  1. Something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.
    • […] another standard of excellence: the ability to con, or “snow.” […] ¶ The coup de grâce of Parker’s little folly was the club’s slickly produced rule book, which the Colonel called a Confidential Report Dealing with Advanced Techniques of Member Snowers, prepared by a team “notably skilled in...c. 1957, Colonel Tom Parker, as explained in Alanna Nash, The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, Simon and Schuster (2003), page 155
    • There was snow out on the Harlem streets, and inside the Lovejoys,^([sic]) Ben Ali did a snow job on her Highness, Lady Daphne. And it required a lot of snowing by a champeen snower; the Lady was nobody’s fool.1971, John Oliver Killens, The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, Coffee House Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 148

Examples of snower in a sentence

  • Hsin-Mei said, “[…] When I was in America, people used to call the Foreign Students Summer Club the ‘Big Three Conference’: the show-offs, the suckers, and the—uh—the girl-snowers.”1979, Jeanne Kelly, Nathan K. Mao, transl., Fortress Besieged, New Directions Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 301:
  • Would that make them “snowers?” or “snowmen?”1986, Jane Louise Curry, The Lotus Cup, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 43:
  • Cant ride with all the snow but took a walk on the beach after kicking ass with the 8hp snower blower...picked up 45 lobsters..nice eating all the tails at once2003 December 7, SDicato, “Lobsters”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet):
  • My blow snower is a very old Toro which requires the gas oil mix.2006 December 12, "Stormin Mormon", “Re: FLOMAX for 2 stage snow blower”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

Forms of snower

pluralsnowers

Origin of snower

From snow + -er.

Questions about snower

What does snower mean?
Snower means something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.
How do you use snower in a sentence?
Hsin-Mei said, “[…] When I was in America, people used to call the Foreign Students Summer Club the ‘Big Three Conference’: the show-offs, the suckers, and the—uh—the girl-snowers.”
What part of speech is snower?
Snower is a noun.
How do you pronounce snower?
Snower is pronounced /ˈsnəʊə/ (UK).
What is the plural of snower?
The plural of snower is snowers.

Words near snower in the dictionary

  1. snowed in
  2. snowed out
  3. snowed over
  4. snowed under
  5. snowed up
  6. snower
  7. snowers
  8. Snowes
  9. snowest
  10. snoweth
  11. snowface

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