English
Etymology
From snow + meow, originally the name of a character in the 1980s TV cartoon series ThunderCats.
Pronunciation
Noun
snowmeow (plural snowmeows)
- (slang, chiefly Internet slang) A snow leopard.
1995, Tobias Köhler, alt.cuddle[1] (Usenet):*cool* cuddles from thys snowmeow *purrpurr* (title)
1996, Elisabeth B. Shaw, alt.fan.furry[2] (Usenet):Awww...I can't be a Canadian snowmeow... :(
1997, Dale Farmer, alt.fan.furry[3] (Usenet):I have a friend whose white Volvo bears the plate SNOLPRD (pronounced "SnowMeow"), I have never done the vanity plate thing myself tho.
1998, Tephra Adularia, alt.lifestyle.furry[4] (Usenet):After recovering from laughing so hard she fell out of her chair, Teph gives the snowmeow a thumbs up.
- 2002, Jarrod Henry, in alt.fan.lion-king [5]
- That's how a french canadian snowleopard meows. [...] Not that I am a french canadian snowmeow or anything.. I'm just your prototypical Tennessee snowmeow..
- 2003, Elizabeth A. Johnson, in alt.lifestyle.furry [6]
- I should've been born a snowmeow.
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