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English
Etymology
From snow + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
snower (plural snowers)
- Something that or somebody who snows, or makes snow.
- 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), →ISBN, page 155:
- 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.”
1971, John Oliver Killens, The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, Coffee House Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 148:There was snow out on the Harlem streets, and inside the Lovejoys, 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.
1979, Jeanne Kelly, Nathan K. Mao, transl., Fortress Besieged, New Directions Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 301: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.”
1986, Jane Louise Curry, The Lotus Cup, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 43:Maybe, Corry thought, that was what gardeners tended to in wintertime: snow. Would that make them “snowers?” or “snowmen?”
2003 December 7, SDicato, “Lobsters”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet):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
2004 December 26, Wolf Kirchmeir, “Re: Knowledge's Discretion”, in comp.ai.philosophy (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.
2006 December 12, "Stormin Mormon", “Re: FLOMAX for 2 stage snow blower”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):My blow snower is a very old Toro which requires the gas oil mix.
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