snower
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See also: Snower
English
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[edit]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.”
- 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.”
- 2004 December 26, Wolf Kirchmeir, “Re: Knowledge's Discretion”, in comp.ai.philosophy[4] (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.
- 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: