snowdropper

English

Etymology

From snowdrop +‎ -er. According to Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the term was originally used in 19th-century Britain to refer to people stealing clothes from poverty, rather than for fetishistic purposes.

Pronunciation

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Noun

snowdropper (plural snowdroppers)

1. (Australia, slang) One who snowdrops (one who steals clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.

Synonyms

• underwear thief

Hypernyms

• fetishist

Translations

one who steals clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline

• German: Unterwäschedieb m, Unterwäschediebin f