different between snowwoman vs snowman

English

Alternative forms

• snowoman

Etymology

From snow +? -woman.

Noun

snowwoman (plural snowwomen)

1. A female version of a snowman, i.e. having female characteristics
   • 2012, George Groves Jr, Eden... Closed

     Winter grew fearsome, forcing the couple to stick close to the cave with nothing but menial chores to occupy their time. To break the tedium, they built snowmen and snowwomen, and snowkids.

Synonyms

• snowlady

English

Etymology

snow +? -man. A snowman (when built from two balls) resembles an 8.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sn??.mæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sno?.mæn/

Noun

snowman (plural snowmen)

1. 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).
2. (baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
3. (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
4. An attractive but heartless man.

   Coordinate term: ice queen

Hypernyms

• snow figure, snowperson

Derived terms

• abominable snowman
• snowmanness
• snowman sign

Related terms

• snow angel

Translations

See also

• iceman
• ?

References

• Michael Wiesenberg (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker?^[3], MGI/Mike Caro University, ?ISBN