sweatball

English

Alternative forms

  • sweat ball

Etymology

sweat + ball.

Noun

sweatball (plural sweatballs)

  1. A sweatdrop.
    • 2007, Nancy Osa, Cuba 15, page 133:
      I walked to the front, feeling a sweatball roll down my back, paused, and began.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.
  4. A small particle of sweat and grime.
    • 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.
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