snowballとは

語源

From Middle English snoweball, snoweballe, snaweballe, snayballe, equivalent to snow +‎ ball. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sneebaal (“snowball”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsnəʊbɔːl/
• (General American) enPR: snōʹbôl, IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊbɔl/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: snōʹbôl, IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊbɑl/
• ハイフネーション: snow‧ball

名詞

snowball (複数形 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.

派生語

動詞

snowball (三人称単数 現在形 snowballs, 現在分詞 snowballing, 過去形および過去分詞形 snowballed)

1. (intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control.

   The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.

2. (intransitive) To play at throwing snowballs.
3. (transitive) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
4. (intransitive) (sexual スラング) To receive a man's ejaculate in one's mouth, and then to pass it back and forth between one's mouth and his.

派生語

• snowballing