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snowplough parent

snowplough parent noun: british standard spelling of snowplow parent.

Noun

snowplough parent (plural snowplough parents)

  1. British standard spelling of snowplow parent.
    • Making life safer and nicer for our children is a reasonable aspiration. Stripping it of any jeopardy is not. For one thing, the snowplough parent is almost always over-involved.2014 August 27, Anne McElvoy, “Watch out, snowploughers are at the school gates”, in Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2014, page 15, column 3
    • It’s easy to be confused by the traits of the Snowplough Parent. It doesn’t mean someone who is funded by the council, difficult to manoeuver and only comes out in inclement weather. It actually refers to manipulative elders who remove any obstacle from their offspring’s path, thereby ensuring they...2018, Shari Low, “The Parent Label”, in Because Mummy Said So, London: Anima, Head of Zeus, →ISBN

Examples of snowplough parent in a sentence

  • It’s easy to be confused by the traits of the Snowplough Parent.2018, Shari Low, “The Parent Label”, in Because Mummy Said So, London: Anima, Head of Zeus, →ISBN:
  • I’d endured conversation after conversation about whether she would be a helicopter mum or a tiger mum or a snowplough parent, a domestic goddess or a sex goddess, or possibly all at once.2020, Kathy Lette, chapter 4, in HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy, London: Head of Zeus, published 2024, →ISBN:

Forms of snowplough parent

pluralsnowplough parents

Questions about snowplough parent

What does snowplough parent mean?
Snowplough parent means british standard spelling of snowplow parent.
How do you use snowplough parent in a sentence?
It’s easy to be confused by the traits of the Snowplough Parent.
What part of speech is snowplough parent?
Snowplough parent is a noun.
What is the plural of snowplough parent?
The plural of snowplough parent is snowplough parents.

Words near snowplough parent in the dictionary

  1. snowpit
  2. snowpits
  3. snowplane
  4. snowplanes
  5. snowplough
  6. snowplough parent
  7. snowplough parenting
  8. snowplough parents
  9. snowploughed
  10. snowploughing
  11. snowploughs

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