frosty
noun
- chilled glass or can of beer
adjective
- attended with or producing frost : freezing
- briskly cold : chilly
- covered or appearing as if covered with frost : hoary
- marked by coolness or extreme reserve in manner
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɒsti/ / /ˈfɹɔsti/ / /ˈfɹɑs-/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English frosty, forsty, from Old English forstiġ, fyrstiġ (“frosty”), from Proto-West Germanic *frostag, *frustīg, By surface analysis, frost + -y. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian froastich (“frosty”), Dutch vorstig (“frosty”), German Low German fröstig (“frosty”), German frostig (“frosty”), Swedish frostig (“frosty”). Compare also Saterland Frisian froasterch (“frosty”), German Low German frösterg (“frosty”).
- Cold, chilly; icy.
“The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.”
“I'd like a frosty milkshake.”
- Having frost on it or in it.
“The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.”
“The frosty beverage gave him a brain freeze.”
- Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.
“After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.”
“Chilly from the start, she grows ever frostier as the book proceeds, partly because Mr. Martin has difficulty translating her sexual abandon to anything beyond “sexual due process.””
name
- A generic name for a snowman.