sweatball

English

Alternative forms

• sweat ball

Etymology

sweat +‎ ball.

Noun

sweatball (plural sweatballs)

1. A sweatdrop.
   • 2007, Nancy Osa, Cuba 15‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3] (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^[4], 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.