lukecold

adj

Etymology

Blend of lukewarm + cold, equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) + cold.

1
Between warm and cool temperatures, but cooler than lukewarm.
- She put her hand on a luke-cold milk bottle and said, "Did Rudy come today?"
2
Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea) and less enthusiastic than lukewarm…
Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea) and less enthusiastic than lukewarm would imply.
- In Texas, Conservative Price Daniel gave lukecold support to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket but had blazing hot support from the voters, who gave him a runaway third-term victory over Dallas Republican William Steger.
- Since industry is the principal supporter and indirectly financiers of the regulating bodies, the response by said group is veritably lukecold to those who fall in the human sub-set of sensitive reactions to pesticides.

No curated loop yet for lukecold. 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