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snowbilly en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Blend of snow + hillbilly.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, slang) 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.
   • Wonkette describes Sarah Palin as a “doomed loser snowbilly.” 2008 November 4, “Our Morning Roundup: Election Edition”, in Washington City Paper:
   • The "damnyankees" can't agree with the Georgia Crackers, and they won't have any truck with the "snowbillies" or the Eskimos. 1959, Ernest H. Groth, Official Proceedings of the National Ice Association, page 76:
   • I'm just a bowlegged snowbilly from Canada. 1994 March 18, Leslie Nielsen, quotee, “Nielsen Is a Closet Comedian Come to Life”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016:

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