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snowdropper

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
snow-drop-per
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who snowdrops (one who steals clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.

Australian usage; Slang

Etymology

From snowdrop + -er. According to Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the term was originally used in 19th-century Britain to refer to people stealing clothes from poverty, rather than for fetishistic purposes.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

snowdroppers (plural)

Synonyms

underwear thief

Questions

What does snowdropper mean?
One who snowdrops (one who steals clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
Where does snowdropper come from?
From snowdrop + -er. According to Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the term was originally used in 19th-century Britain to refer to people stealing clothes from poverty, rather than for fetishistic purposes.

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