icing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aɪsɪŋ

Etymology 1

Gerund of the verb to ice. Cognate with German Eisung (“icing, freezing”), Icelandic ísing (“ice crystals, sleet”). More at ice.

Noun

icing (countable and uncountable, plural icings)

1. A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
2. (ice hockey) A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
3. The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.

Derived terms

• butter icing
• fondant icing
• royal icing
• water icing

 

Descendants

• → Swedish: icing

Translations

sweet glaze used for baked goods

• Bulgarian: глазура (bg) f (glazura)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 糖衣 (tong⁴ ji¹)

  Mandarin: 糖霜 (zh) (táng shuāng)

• Danish: glasur (da)
• Esperanto: glaceo
• Finnish: kuorrutus (fi)
• French: glaçage (fr) m
• German: Zuckerguss (de) m, Glasur (de) f
• Greek: γλάσο (el) n (gláso)
• Italian: glassa (it) f, glassatura f

• Japanese: アイシング (aishingu)
• Maori: pani reka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: glasur m

  Nynorsk: glasur m

• Polish: lukier (pl) m
• Portuguese: glacê (pt) m
• Romanian: glazură (ro) f (de zahăr)
• Russian: глазу́рь (ru) f (glazúrʹ)
• Spanish: suspiro (es) m
• Swedish: glasyr (sv)

minor violation of ice hockey rules

• Bulgarian: айсинг m (ajsing)
• Catalan: refús prohibit (ca) m

• Finnish: pitkä kiekko (fi)
• Swedish: icing (sv) c

process of forming a layer of ice

• Bulgarian: обледеняване n (obledenjavane)
• Finnish: jäädytys (fi), jäädyttäminen (fi)
• German: Vereisung f

• Polish: obladzanie n
• Romanian: acoperire cu gheață f
• Russian: обледене́ние (ru) n (obledenénije)

Etymology 2

From the verb to ice.

Verb

icing

1. present participle of ice

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Swedish

Etymology

From English icing.

Noun

icing c

1. (sports) icing; a minor violation of rules in hockey

Declension

Declension of icing
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	icing	icingen	icingar	icingarna
Genitive	icings	icingens	icingars	icingarnas

Further reading

• icing in Svensk ordbok.