snower

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UK/ˈsnəʊə/

noun

Something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.

RareScrabble 9

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nounsnower (plural snowers)

plural snowers

  1. Something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.

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

    1986, Jane Louise Curry, The Lotus Cup, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 43
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    […] 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.”

    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), page 155

    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.

    1971, John Oliver Killens, The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, Coffee House Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 148

    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.”

    1979, Jeanne Kelly, Nathan K. Mao, transl., Fortress Besieged, New Directions Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 301

    Cant ride with all the snow but took a walk on the beach after kicking ass with the 8hp snower blower...picked up 45 lobsters..nice eating all the tails at once

    2003 December 7, SDicato, “Lobsters”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet)

    Mind you, when I was a child, I was told a charming story about Frau Holle, who was the snower - when she shook out the duvets of the people who lived above the sky, the feathers that flew came to earth as snow.

    2004 December 26, Wolf Kirchmeir, “Re: Knowledge's Discretion”, in comp.ai.philosophy (Usenet)

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