Definition of Snowballed

1. Verb. (past of snowball) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Snowballed

1. snowball [v] - See also: snowball

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowballed

snow skink
snow skinks
snow thrower
snow tire
snow train
snow trillium
snow under
snowball's chance
snowball's chance in hell
snowball effect
snowball fight
snowball fights
snowball opacity
snowball sampling
snowballed
snowballer
snowballers
snowballing
snowbank
snowbanks
snowbase
snowbases
snowbear
snowbears
snowbell
snowbells
snowbelt
snowbelts

Literary usage of Snowballed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Secrets of a Kuttite: An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity by Edward Opotiki Mousley (1921)
"After snowballing the starters and getting snowballed ourselves, we shot down the slope or over the bank, as the case occurred, and once or twice we ..."

2. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1895)
"The Governor of California was up there, and was properly snowballed— and gave as good as was sent him, besides " washing faces " for minor dignitaries. ..."

3. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"We are expressly told that the clown who went about fanning himself and complaining of the heat, while the populace snowballed him, was supposed to dispel ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"Some called it their teacher and snowballed it. Others fixed it all up with hat, broom, pipe in mouth, and then were afraid of it at night. ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"With the exception of ä few lines of Latin verse on a lady who snowballed him, and a letter to Aldus Manutius at the head of Li ..."

6. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"Egmont and his glittering train had been snowballed by the London 'prentices when he came formally to offer Philip's hand to the queen in January 1554. ..."

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