Snowdrop
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsnəʊ.dɹɒp/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Snowdrop is a noun meaning (Australia, slang, ambitransitive) To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
Meaning
(Australia, slang, ambitransitive) To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
More Meanings
- Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.
- Alternative letter-case form of Snowdrop (“a Royal Air Force police officer”).
Example Sentences
It'll be like snowdropping clothes from a clothesline. We'll snowdrop a baby.
A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled.
Tufts of primroses grew under the still leafless trees; the hepatica had succeeded the snowdrop.
White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan.
Word Forms
- snowdrops
- snowdropping
- snowdropped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include snowflake, snowbell, snow-in-summer, bloodflower, flower-gentle, narcissus.
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