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Icy
//ˈaɪsi// adj, name, slang
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.
"To go through this experience in bitter winter weather and stumble along the line in the pitch darkness at 6 o'clock in the morning, into an icy-cold foundry, as was the writer's experience, was not too good."
- 2 Covered with ice, wholly or partially.
"With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d."
- 3 Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold.
"I wasn't all the way icy. It wasn't like I could just give a girl a baby and forget about them."
- 4 To be wearing an excessive amount of jewelry, especially of the high-quality and expensive kind. US, slang
"Your bitch's a regular bitch, you're calling her wifey, I fucked her, I feed her fast food, you're keeping her icy."
Adjective
- 1 covered with or containing or consisting of ice wordnet
- 2 shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice wordnet
- 3 extremely cold wordnet
- 4 devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name.
Etymology
From ice + -y; cf. Old English īsiġ.
See also for "icy"
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