I stand in the freezing winter yard with a carrot nose and coal eyes, but I have no legs even though my name says I am a male human. What am I?
A snowman
The answer rests on literal compound word breakdown where a 'snowman' is built from cold winter snow. The clue plays on the words 'snow' and 'man,' highlighting a frozen figure that resembles a person standing still.
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