Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A figure of a person made from packed snow, usually formed by piling large snowballs on top of each other.
Wiktionary
- n. A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
- n. slang A playing card with the rank of nine.
- n. golf A score of eight on a single hole.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a figure of a person made of packed snow
Etymologies
- From snow + man. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sun 11/29/09 10: 05 AM frostey the snowman is a very hapy fun sole”
“The snowman is mounted on a silicon cantilever from an atomic force microscope whose sharp tip 'feels' surfaces creating topographic surveys at almost atomic scales.”
“The snowman is accompanied by seasonally appropriate green asparagus and red glazed carrots (the red is food dye), and a bit of veggie burger with a Thai basil leaf.”
“A snowman is built in a basement that hides a Jew.”
“September 18, 2008 at 12: 50 pm cool. to me it looks like some little extra out of one of those rankin and bass tv specials. now that i think about it, it reminds me of the abominable snowman from the rudolph special.”
“This image of a threatening snowman is from a 1927 postcard.”
“In the silent movie The Snowman by Wallace McCutcheon, a chain-smoking snowman is swigging whiskey and appears in the rest of the film sloshed, inspiring a flogging by the townspeople.”
“Partly because the snowman is so inherently magical.”
“As they said on FARK. com, if you can tell a snowman is male, you've put the carrot in the wrong place.”
“With each consecutive day the snowman is slowly built up and up.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snowman’.
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Curling, The Roaring Game
Terms and phrases associated with the game and sport of curling.
hack, tee, hogscore, hatch, trigger, stone, end, sweeper, broom, curling sheet, hog line, centre line and 288 more...
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Do-it-yourself Christmas Carol List
Tired of singing the same carols year after year? Wanna mix it up a little? Now you can, with the Do-it-yourself Christmas Carol List (from the creator of the Doo-it-yourself Doowop List). Just mix...
let it, reindeer, silent, child, Christmas, got run over by a, mercy mild, winter, joyful, holly, newborn, king and 59 more...
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Golf Words
I loathe golf, but I love the olde fashioned names for the clubs.
playclub, brassie, spoon, cleek, baffy, mashie, niblick, divot, chilly-dip, the yips, skull, texas wedge and 41 more...
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
Yule, Yule-log, holly, yew, bay, bay-leaf, bayberry, Holly King, Oak King, mistletoe, Christmas tree, star in the East and 150 more...
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Flying Into Snow
Snow-related words.
I love snow. Send me as much as you can.snow, flake, flurry, sastruga, slush, powder, blizzard, snowman, whiteout, sleet, sneg, salju and 75 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for snowman.
mollusque (•,•) Jun 9, 2009
bilby Frosty the Triple-Bogey sounds like a really evil snowman indeed! Dec 21, 2007
sonofgroucho I had no idea this was a golfing term. We live and learn. Dec 21, 2007
reesetee 8 is my usual score in bowling. ;-) Jul 19, 2007
jennarenn 8? That's my usual score on the mini-golf course. Which is why I usually don't mini-golf, of course. ;) Jul 19, 2007
oroboros This is also golf slang for the dreaded "8" (strokes) taken on a golf hole and entered with much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the scorecard! It is a triple-bogey on a 5-par hole and a quadruple-bogey on a 4-par. What do you think they'd call a 12!!? A dodecaman? Jul 19, 2007