Noun: snowball
| Singular | snowball |
| Plural | snowballs |
Sample Sentences
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Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934... [2005, Eldad Ben-Yosef, The Evolution of the US Airline Industry:]
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It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.
Nouns inflected like snowball
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
snoweball', German Nouns '
Schneeball', Dutch Nouns '
sneeuwbal', Swedish Nouns '
snöboll', Danish Nouns '
snebold', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
snøball', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
snøball', Icelandic Nouns '
snjóbolti'.