雪だるま — meaning in English

English meaning

• snowball noun A ball made of packed snow, often thrown for fun.
• snowman noun A figure shaped like a person, built by stacking balls of snow, often decorated with a face and arms.

Senses

雪だるま is used for these senses in English:

• snowball A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.
• snowman A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).

snowball — full definition

1. noun A ball made of packed snow, often thrown for fun.
2. verb To grow bigger and bigger very quickly, often out of control.

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