Ice-cold

//ˈaɪskəʊld// adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cold serving of beer. Australia, slang

    "[…] to sink a few ice colds […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    As cold as ice; very cold.

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

  2. 2
    Without emotion; distant. figuratively
Adjective
  1. 1
    as cold as ice wordnet

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Example

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"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”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.