Also snowman. [f. SNOW sb.1 Cf. Fris. snieman, G. schneeman, Da. snemand.]

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  1.  A mass of snow made into the figure of a man. Also transf., a man dressed so as to represent or imitate this.

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1827.  Clare, Sheph. Cal., 3. Making rude forms of various names, Snow-men, or aught his fancy frames.

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1902.  Westm. Gaz., 26 Sept., 7/2. Six men, dressed in wadding and representing musical snowmen.

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  attrib. and Comb.  1902.  Academy, 27 Dec., 712/1. The daylight passed … in snow-man making on the meadow.

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1908.  S. A. Cook, Relig. Anc. Palestine, iii. 31–2. Small idols … in the clumsy ‘snow-man’ technique.

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  2.  dial. The snow-bunting.

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1893.  Cozens-Hardy, Broad Norf., 49.

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