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frostie

noun

Etymology

From frost + -ie.

  1. derived from *prews-✻ — “to freeze; frost”
  2. inherited from *frustaz✻
  3. inherited from forst
  4. inherited from frost
  5. formed as frostie — “frost + -ie”

Definitions

  1. A chilled glass or can of beer.

    • Nothing was really said until Glenn McGrath walked in. He sat down, noticed Warnie with a frostie and asked, ‘What the hell are you doing with a beer?’ Warnie replied, ‘Bowling day, mate—just finishing the day with a beer.’

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for frostie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA