ice-cold
adjEtymology
From Middle English *is-cold, from Old English īsċeald; equivalent to ice + cold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ieskoold (“ice-cold”), West Frisian iiskâld (“ice-cold”), Dutch ijskoud (“ice-cold”), Afrikaans yskoud (“ice-cold”), German Low German ieskold (“ice-cold”), German eiskalt (“ice-cold”), Yiddish אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt, “ice-cold”), Danish iskold (“ice-cold”), Swedish iskall (“ice-cold”), Norwegian iskald (“ice-cold”), Faroese ísakaldur (“ice-cold”), Icelandic ískaldur (“ice-cold”).
Definitions
Very cold.
- Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold
- I'm going to put my coat back on — I'm ice-cold again!
Of a person, look, or behavior
Of a person, look, or behavior: without emotion; distant; (sometimes) silently disapproving.
- I don't know why she gave me an ice-cold look — I had thought that the topic of conversation was totally innocuous.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point).
- Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold
- ice-cold beer here
- It's best to serve this dessert while it's still ice-cold.
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A cold serving of beer.
- […] to sink a few ice colds […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for ice-cold. 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