Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweatball

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sweat-ball
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

A momentarily sweaty person.

noun

A person with a tendency to sweat quickly.

noun

A small particle of sweat and grime.

Example Sentences

"I walked to the front, feeling a sweatball roll down my back, paused, and began."
"I tried to give Heather a celebratory hug but she quickly wriggled out of my embrace. 'get away, sweatball,' she said, with an attempt at a laugh."
"I'm a sweatball too. A couple general notes on sweating. I believe it is true that /generally/ speaking, men do tend to sweat more than women."
"He peeled his work gloves and rubbed his hands compulsively until tiny black sweatballs of grime dropped away like scattered grains of pepper."

Etymology

From sweat + ball.

Inflected Forms

sweatballs (plural) sweat ball (alternative)

Questions

What does sweatball mean?: A sweatdrop.
Where does sweatball come from?: From sweat + ball.

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