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
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Adjective
ice-cold (comparative more ice-cold, superlative most ice-cold)
- 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.
- Now I'm sitting here
- 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
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