Definitions
A ball of packed snow, or something that grows rapidly.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...”
“It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.”
“Scandal, with her, did not lose any of its usual snowball propensities, of gathering as it went.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Winter throw”8 letters
02“Packed winter sphere”8 letters
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