snowbilly

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noun

A person from rural areas of northern North America, especially a rural white Canadian, Alaskan or Upper Midwesterner, living where the temperatures in the winter dip below freezing.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounsnowbilly (plural snowbillies)

plural snowbillies

  1. derogatoryslangA person from rural areas of northern North America, especially a rural white Canadian, Alaskan or Upper Midwesterner, living where the temperatures in the winter dip below freezing.

    I'm just a bowlegged snowbilly from Canada.

    1994 March 18, Leslie Nielsen, quotee, “Nielsen Is a Closet Comedian Come to Life”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016
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    The "damnyankees" can't agree with the Georgia Crackers, and they won't have any truck with the "snowbillies" or the Eskimos.

    1959, Ernest H. Groth, Official Proceedings of the National Ice Association, page 76

    Wonkette describes Sarah Palin as a “doomed loser snowbilly.”

    2008 November 4, “Our Morning Roundup: Election Edition”, in Washington City Paper

Origin

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APA

snowbilly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowbilly

MLA

“snowbilly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowbilly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snowbilly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowbilly.

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