sweatball
English
Alternative forms
- sweat ball
Etymology
sweat + ball.
Noun
sweatball (plural sweatballs)
- A sweatdrop.
- 2007, Nancy Osa, Cuba 15, page 133:
- I walked to the front, feeling a sweatball roll down my back, paused, and began.
- (by extension) A momentarily sweaty person.
- 2001, John Harrison, Off the Map: The Call of the Amazonian Wild, page 271:
- 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.
- (by extension) A person with a tendency to sweat quickly.
- 1998 June 3, jwn...@alw.nih.gov, “I'm a sweatball”, in rec.running, Usenet:
- 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.
- Small black particles formed after rubbing sweaty hands on each other.
- 2010, Stephen Jones, The Dead That Walk: Zombie Stories, page 128:
- He peeled his work gloves and rubbed his hands compulsively until tiny black sweatballs of grime dropped away like scattered grains of pepper.