different between sower vs snower

English

Etymology 1

From sow +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s???(?)/

Noun

sower (plural sowers)

1. One who or that which sows.

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa??(?)/

Adjective

sower (comparative sowerer, superlative sowerest)

1. Obsolete form of sour.

Anagrams

• Rowse, WOREs, owers, owres, resow, rowse, serow, sowre, swore, worse

Middle English

Adjective

sower

1. Alternative form of sour

English

Etymology

snow +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sn???/

Noun

snower (plural snowers)

1. Something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.
   • 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), ?ISBN, page 155:

     […] 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 evasiveness and ineptitude.”

   • 1971, John Oliver Killens, The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd,^[1] Coffee House Press (2002), ?ISBN, page 148:

     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.

   • 1979, Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao (translators), Qian Zhongshu (author), Fortress Besieged, New Directions Publishing (2004), ?ISBN, page 301:

     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.”

   • 1986, Jane Louise Curry, The Lotus Cup,^[2] Atheneum, ?ISBN, page 43:

     Maybe, Corry thought, that was what gardeners tended to in wintertime: snow. Would that make them “snowers?” or “snowmen?”

Anagrams

• Rewson, owners, resown, rowens, sworne, worsen