ice-cold

See also: ice cold

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English īsceald, corresponding to ice +‎ cold. Cognate with Dutch ijskoud, Afrikaans yskoud, German eiskalt, West Frisian iiskâld, Saterland Frisian ieskoold, Swedish iskall, Danish iskold, Norwegian iskald, Icelandic ískaldur and Faroese ísakaldur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌɪskəʊld/

Adjective

ice-cold (comparative more ice-cold, superlative most ice-cold)

1. As cold as ice; very cold.
   • 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     When Tripp holds his red soda like it’s an ice-cold beer, it probably isn’t actually Mountain Dew Code Red, but it might as well be.

   • 1966, The Kinks, Sunny Afternoon

     Now I'm sitting here
     Sipping on my ice-cold beer
     Lazing on a sunny afternoon.

2. Without emotion; distant.

   The way she stared him down and walked away...everyone in the room could tell she was ice-cold.

Synonyms

• (very cold): cold as ice
• (without emotion): icy

Translations

as cold as ice

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰冷 (zh) (bīnglěng)

• Czech: ledový (cs) m, chladný jako led m
• Dutch: ijskoud (nl)
• Finnish: jääkylmä (fi)
• French: (objects) glacé (fr), (weather) glacial (fr)
• German: eiskalt (de)
• Hungarian: jéghideg (hu)
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• Latin: gelidus
• Norwegian: iskald (no)
• Old English: isceald
• Portuguese: gélido (pt) m, gelado (pt) m
• Russian: ледяно́й (ru) (ledjanój), холо́дный как лёд (xolódnyj kak ljod)
• Spanish: gélido (es) m, helado (es)
• Swedish: iskall (sv)
• Turkish: buz gibi

distant

• Czech: chladný jako led m
• Finnish: jääkylmä (fi)
• French: glacial (fr)
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• Norwegian: iskald (no)
• Portuguese: gélido (pt) m, frio (pt) m
• Swedish: iskall (sv)