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Cold Shoulder

Definition: Cold Shoulder

Cold Shoulder

Noun

1. A refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Cold Shoulder

DomainDefinition

Literature

Cold Shoulder To show or give one the cold shoulder is to assume a distant manner towards a person, to indicate that you wish to cut his acquaintance. The reference is to a cold shoulder of mutton served to a stranger at dinner; there is not much of it, and even what is left is but moderate fare. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Cold Shoulder

Synonyms: cut (n), snub (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cold Shoulder

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Contempt

Turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds; (repudiate); send away with a flea in the ear.

Discourtesy

Cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear.

Recession

Keep at arm's length, turn one's back upon, give the cold shoulder; send off, send away with a flea in one's ear.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Cold Shoulder

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Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Cold Shoulder

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The girl who gave him the cold shoulder / John Held, Jr. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expressions: Cold Shoulder

Expressions using "cold shoulder": give a cold shoulder to give smb. the cold shoulder give the cold shoulder give the cold shoulder to smb. tip smb. the cold shoulder To give one the cold shoulder To turn a cold shoulder to turn a cold shoulder to. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: Cold Shoulder

Language Translations for "cold shoulder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rri ftohtë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хладен прием, оказвам хладен прием на, пренебрежително отношение (disparagement), игнорирам (blink, cushion, ignore, overlook, set aside). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přezíravost (disdain), ignorovat (brush off, ignore, ostracize, snub). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αδιαφορία (detachment, disinterest, indifference, listlessness, negligence, nonchalance, regardlessness, unconcern), ψυχρότησ (chillines, coldness, coolness, gelidity, iciness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lekezel (condescend, make little of, to condescend), kurtán bánik valakivel. (various references)

   

Italian

  

freddezza (coldness, coolness, frigidness, gelidity, stiffness). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

振られる (to be jilted, to be rejected, to give someone the cold shoulder). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふられる (to be jilted, to be rejected, to give someone the cold shoulder). (various references)

   

Manx

  

dooney sooillyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oldcay ouldershay

   

Portuguese

  

indiferença (aloofness, apathy, callousness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterest, easiness, estrangement, frigidity, insensibility, insouciance, listlessness, lukewarmness, nonchalance, stand-off, unconcern). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tratare cu rãcealã, primire rece (cool reception). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

холодный прием (cold greeting, icy welcome), оказывать холодный прием (cold-shoulder). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dočekati nekoga neprijateljski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

persona que trata con frialdad, dar la espalda a (stand with one's back to). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

möta kallt. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

третирувати (slight, stepmother, walk over), виявляти байдужість, зневажати (невимушенІсть [f], desecrate, despise, disdain, disregard, ignore, misprise, misprize, neglect, overlook, override, scorn, scout, spit, violate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cold Shoulder

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-h-l-l-o-o-r-s-u"

-3 letters: coholders, colluders, decolours, dollhouse.

-4 letters: chlorous, chorused, chudders, closured, coddlers, coholder, colluded, colluder, colludes, coloreds, coloured, cuddlers, decolors, decolour, decorous, doodlers, huddlers, ocherous, ochreous, reschool, schooled, scrolled, shoulder, shrouded, slouched, sloucher.

-5 letters: cholers, chooser, chorded, choused, chouser, chudder, closure, clouded, cloured, codders, coddler, coddles, collude, colored, colours, colures, coolers, coursed, creosol, crushed, cuddler.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cold Shoulder


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 6C 64      53 68 6F 75 6C 64 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01101100 01100100 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#108 &#100 &#32 &#83 &#104 &#111 &#117 &#108 &#100 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006C 0064      0053 0068 006F 0075 006C 0064 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3781787025374818778707184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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