Ice-cold
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A cold serving of beer. Australia, slang
"[…] to sink a few ice colds […]"
- 1 As cold as ice; very cold.
"Now I'm sitting here Sipping on my ice-cold beer Lazing on a sunny afternoon."
- 2 Without emotion; distant. figuratively
- 1 as cold as ice wordnet
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More examples"Tom and Mary swam in the ice-cold lake."
Etymology
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”).
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