snowman

English

Snowman

Etymology

• snow +‎ -man.
• (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsnəʊ.mæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊ.mæn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊmæn, -oʊmæn

Noun

snowman (plural snowmen)

2. 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).
3. (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).
   • 1996 June 3, Buster Olney, “Chat with Sparky helps 'useless' Johnson   Dejected O's manager gets lift from ex-Tigers boss”, in The Baltimore Sun‎^[1] (quoting B. J. Surhoff):

     [The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.

   • 2005 June 26, Dayton Daily News‎^[2], page 44:

     "Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said. "Then Stone had to stay out there and suck it up for us […] "

   • 2018, Andre Huu, The Round of Your Life: A Book on Golf and Life, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:

     For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.

4. (slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
5. (rare) An attractive but heartless man.

   Coordinate term: ice queen

   • 1961, John D. Loudermilk (lyrics and music), “The Great Snowman”:

     A few years ago there lived a lover
     By the name of Jimmy Jones
     Who really snowed the girls and left them cold
     And gained the title of "The Great Snowman".

Hypernyms

• snow figure, snowperson

Derived terms

• abominable snowman
• snowman hole
• snowmanness
• snowman sign

Related terms

• snow angel

Translations

figure made of snow

• Afrikaans: sneeuman
• Arabic: إِنْسَان ثَلْجِيّ m (ʔinsān ṯaljiyy), تِمْثَال ثَلْجِيّ m (timṯāl ṯaljiyy)
• Armenian: ձնեմարդ (hy) (jnemard)
• Azerbaijani: qar adam
• Belarusian: сне́жная ба́ба f (snjéžnaja bába), снегаві́к m (snjehavík)
• Bulgarian: сне́жен чове́к m (snéžen čovék)
• Catalan: ninot de neu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雪人 (syut³ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 雪人 (zh) (xuěrén)

• Chuvash: юр кӗлетке (jur k̬ĕletke)
• Cornish: den ergh m
• Czech: sněhulák m
• Danish: snemand (da) c
• Dutch: sneeuwpop (nl) m or f, sneeuwman (nl) m
• Erzya: ловатя (lovaťa)
• Esperanto: neĝhomo
• Estonian: lumememm (et), lumemees, memm
• Finnish: lumiukko (fi)
• French: bonhomme de neige (fr) m
• Georgian: თოვლიანი (tovliani)
• German: Schneemann (de) m
• Greek: χιονάνθρωπος (el) m (chionánthropos)
• Hawaiian: kanaka hau
• Hebrew: בובת שלג f (bubát shéleg), אִישׁ שֶׁלֶג (he) m (ish shéleg)
• Hungarian: hóember (hu)
• Icelandic: snjókarl (is) m
• Ingrian: lumiukko, lumimees
• Irish: fear sneachta m
• Italian: pupazzo di neve m, fantoccio di neve m, omino di neve m, uomo di neve m
• Japanese: 雪だるま (ja) (ゆきだるま, yukidaruma), 雪達磨 (ゆきだるま, yukidaruma)
• Korean: 눈사람 (ko) (nunsaram)
• Latin: vir nivis m
• Latvian: sniegavīrs m
• Lithuanian: senis besmegenis m, sniego senis m
• Low German: Sneemann m
• Luxembourgish: Schnéimännchen m, Schnéimann m
• Macedonian: сне́шко m (snéško)
• Malay: orang salji
• Maltese: borrinu m
• Mongolian: цасан хүн (casan xün)
• Navajo: yas hastiin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snømann m

  Nynorsk: snømann m

• Persian: آدم برفی (fa) (âdam-barfi)
• Polish: bałwan (pl) m
• Portuguese: boneco de neve m
• Romanian: om de zăpadă m
• Russian: сне́жная ба́ба (ru) f (snéžnaja bába), снегови́к (ru) m (snegovík)
• Scottish Gaelic: bodach-sneachda m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: снеговић m, сње́говић m

  Roman: snegović m, snjégović m

• Silesian: śniygulŏk m
• Slovak: snehuliak m
• Slovene: snežak (sl) m
• Sotho: monna wa lehloa
• Spanish: muñeco de nieve m, hombre nival m, monigote níveo m
• Swedish: snögubbe (sv) c
• Tagalog: taong niyebe
• Tajik: бобои барфӣ (bobo-yi barfi)
• Thai: ตุ๊กตาหิมะ (dtúk-gà-dtaa-hì-má)
• Turkish: kardan adam (tr)
• Ukrainian: снігова́ ба́ба (uk) f (snihová bába), снігови́к m (snihovýk)
• Uzbek: qorbobo (uz)
• Vietnamese: người tuyết
• Welsh: dyn eira m

See also

• iceman
• ☃

References

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