snowman

名词 n.
/ˈsnəʊ.mæn/    /ˈsnoʊ.mæn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
  2. A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
    — [The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.
  3. A playing card with the rank of eight. slang
  4. An attractive but heartless man. rare
    — A few years ago there lived a lover By the name of Jimmy Jones Who really snowed the girls and left them cold And gained the title of "The Great Snowman".

词形变化

snowmen plural

词源

* snow + -man.
* (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.
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