snowball英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

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.
A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control). figuratively

— Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...
A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
A type of ice dessert: a snow cone. US
A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.

— It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.

动词 v.

To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state. figuratively,intransitive

— The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
To play at throwing snowballs. intransitive
To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at. transitive
To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth. intransitive,slang,vulgar

形容词 adj.

Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect. not-comparable

— Scandal, with her, did not lose any of its usual snowball propensities, of gathering as it went.

词形变化

snowballs plural snowballs present,singular,third-person snowballing participle,present snowballed participle,past snowballed past

词汇关系

衍生词

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词源

词源 1

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 sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.

词源 2

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 sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.

词源 3

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 sniųoboll, Danish snebold, Norwegian Bokmål snøball, Norwegian Nynorsk snøball and Icelandic snjóbolti.