different between yeti vs snowball

English

Etymology

From Tibetan ???????? (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of ??? (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and ???? (dred, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?j?.ti/, [?j?.?i]
• Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

yeti (plural yeti or yetis)

1. (cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

   Synonym: abominable snowman

   Coordinate terms: bigfoot, sasquatch, yowie, menk

Translations

Anagrams

• -iety, yite

Anguthimri

Noun

yeti

1. (Mpakwithi) bird

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189

Czech

Alternative forms

• yetti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?j?t?]
• Hyphenation: ye?ti

Noun

yeti m anim

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Declension

Synonyms

• sn?žný muž

Further reading

• yeti in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English yeti, from Tibetan ???????? (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of ??? (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and ???? (dred, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?je?.ti/
• Hyphenation: ye?ti

Noun

yeti m (plural yeti's, diminutive yetietje n)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman

Italian

Noun

yeti m (invariable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi

Polish

Etymology

From Tibetan ???????? (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of ??? (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and ???? (dred, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?.ti/

Noun

yeti m anim (indeclinable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Further reading

• yeti in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• yeti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• iéti, ieti, yéti

Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti (unidentified humanoid of the Himalayas)

   Synonym: abominável homem das neves

Slovak

Etymology

From Tibetan ???????? (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of ??? (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and ???? (dred, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?je.ti/

Noun

yeti m (genitive singular yetiho, nominative plural yetiovia, genitive plural yetiov, declension pattern of kuli)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Declension

Synonyms

• snežný ?lovek m
• snežný muž m

References

• yeti in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. (folklore) yeti

Swedish

Noun

yeti c

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jeti]
• Hyphenation: ye?ti

Noun

yeti (definite accusative yetiyi, plural yetiler)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti
2. (philosophy, psychology) faculty, skill

Declension

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?)

Derived terms

Translations

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

Translations