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snowbilly

noun

Etymology

Blend of snow + hillbilly.

  1. derived from bulla
  2. derived from bulle
  3. derived from bille
  4. inherited from bille
  5. formed as billy — “Bill + -y”
  6. compounded as hillbilly — “hill + billy”
  7. compounded as snowbilly — “snow + hillbilly”

Definitions

  1. A person from rural areas of northern North America, especially a rural white Canadian,…

    A person from rural areas of northern North America, especially a rural white Canadian, Alaskan or Upper Midwesterner, living where the temperatures in the winter dip below freezing.

    • The "damnyankees" can't agree with the Georgia Crackers, and they won't have any truck with the "snowbillies" or the Eskimos.
    • I'm just a bowlegged snowbilly from Canada.
    • Wonkette describes Sarah Palin as a “doomed loser snowbilly.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA