different between snowball vs jellybean

English

Etymology

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 sni?oboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sn??b??l/
• (General American) enPR: sn??bôl, IPA^(key): /?sno?b?l/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: sn??bôl, IPA^(key): /?sno?b?l/
• Hyphenation: snow?ball

Noun

snowball (plural snowballs)

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).
   • 2005, Eldad Ben-Yosef, The Evolution of the US Airline Industry

     Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...

4. A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
5. (US) A type of ice dessert.
6. A type of cake. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Verb

snowball (third-person singular simple present snowballs, present participle snowballing, simple past and past participle snowballed)

1. (intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.
2. (intransitive) To play at throwing snowballs.
3. (transitive) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
4. (intransitive) (sexual slang) To receive a man's ejaculate in one's mouth, and then to pass it back and forth between one's mouth and his.

Derived terms

• snowballing

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English

Pronunciation

Noun

jellybean (plural jellybeans)

1. Alternative spelling of jelly bean

Adjective

jellybean (not comparable)

1. (slang, electronics, programming) of an electronic component, or software algorithm: generic, standard, vanilla, easy to find
   • 2008, Clive Maxfield, Bebop to the Boolean Boogie

     These were mainly used to implement glue logic, and it was possible to replace fifty or more jellybean devices with a single ASIC.