Frosty

Definition: Frosty

Frosty

Adjective

1. Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile".

2. Covered with frost; "frosted windowpanes"; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner.

3. Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term).

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

Date "frosty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Frosty \Frost"y\, adjective. [Compare to Anglo-Saxon fyrstig.]. (references)

Synonyms: Frosty

Cold

Icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal; hyperborean, hyperboreal; icebound; frozen out.

Crosswords: Frosty

Sometimes I feel like I'm getting a little frosty myself (The Big Chill; writing credit: Barbara Benedek; Lawrence Kasdan)

Dot, stay frosty. (ReBoot; writing credit: Christy Marx; Mark Leiren-Young)

We're kicking off our fun old fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select that most important of Christmas symbols (Christmas Vacation; writing credit: John Hughes)

Dos thus have thou a mug of ale for me and me mate, for he hath been pitched in battle with a fort knight and has the king's thirst for the frosty brew dos thou might have for thus (The Cable Guy; writing credit: Lou Holtz Jr.)

Well it aint f cking frosty! (Jack Frost; writing credit: Michael Cooney; Jeremy Paige)

Frosty the Snowman (1969)

The Conversion of Frosty Blake (1915)

Frosty Returns (1992)

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Books

• 1-2-3 Smoothies : 123 Quick Frosty Drinks-Delicious AND Nutritious! (reference)

• A Cold Snap: Frosty Poems (reference)

• A Frosty Day (reference)

• Frosty the Snowman (reference)

• Frosty the Snowman: A Flurry of Fun (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns (reference)

• Frosty the Snowman (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and Frosty the Snowman [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Rudolph, Frosty and Friends' Favorite Christmas Songs (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape ... Credit: NASA.

The Frosty Morning. / L. Noel. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin

Seems a little mite frosty for rain

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly

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Political Economy

Nigeria

Relations between President Obasanjo and the country's 36 governors are occasionally frosty and contentious. (references)

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Expressions using "frosty": be frosty ♦ frosty night ♦ frosty weather. Additional references.

Beginning with "frosty": frosty-eyed, frosty-face, frosty-faced.

Albanian

jomiqësor (ill disposed, ill-affected, inimical), i mbuluar me brymë (frosted, rimy), i ftohtë (algid, aloof, bleak, bloodless, brumous, chilly, cold, cold-livered, cool, cool blooded, crimpy, distant, frigid, frozen, gelid, glacial, insensitive, offish, Parky, sexless, stilted, stolid, stony, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكسو بالصقيع, ‏مثلج (frosted, frozen, glace, glacial, ice cold, iced, icy, water ice), ‏أشيب (gray, grey, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white), ‏بارد جدا (bleak, gelid, icy, perishing cold, raw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

студен (algid, asepsis, bleak, bloodless, cold, cool, dead, frigid, frosted, gelid, iced, icy, impassive, inhuman, raw, repulsive, stony, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, unresponsive, winterly, wintry), недружелюбен (unfriendly, unneighborly, unneighbourly), мразовит (chilly, frigid, ice cold, icy), заскрежен (frosted), побелял (grey, grey haired, grey headed, hoary, white, white-headed). (various references)

Chinese 

霜白 , 起泡沫 (Foamed, foaming, Lathered, Lathering). (various references)

Czech

ojínìný (frosted), mrazivý (chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, nippy, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Finnish

hallayö (frosty night, night of frost). (various references)

French

glacial (freezing), glacé (freezing, frigid, frozen, glazed frost), givré par le gel, de gel, dépoli, conservatif. (various references)

German

frostig (chill, chilly, frigid, frostily). (various references)

Greek 

παγερόσ (bitter, chill, icy), παγερός (chill, freezing), ψυχρόσ (bleak, chilly, cold, cool, frigid), ψυχρός (chill, cool, frigid, remote, unemotional). (various references)

Hebrew 

כפורי, צונן (chilly, cold, fresh, frigid). (various references)

Hungarian

jeges (chill, frigid, frore, gelid, glacial, iced, icy), zúzmarás (frosted, rimy), jégvirágos, fagyos (chill, chilling, frigid, frore, glacial, wintery, wintry). (various references)

Italian

freddoloso (chilly, iced, sensitive to cold), gelido (chill, gelid, icy), gelato (frozen, ice, ice cream, icy), canuto (Hoar, hoary, white, white haired). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

霜雰 (frosty air), 霜夜 (frosty night). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そうふん (frosty air), しもよ (frosty night). (various references)

Manx

rioeeagh (freezing, icy), feayr (chilly, cold, cool, distant, distant of person, frigid, icy), eean y ghob jiarg mooie. (various references)

Norwegian

kald (bleak, chilly, cold), is-. (various references)

Pig Latin

ostyfray.(various references)

Portuguese

frígido (chilly, frigid), muito frio (very cold), indiferente (aloof, callous, chill, chilly, chippy, cool, devil-may-care, freezing, frigid, immaterial, impassible, incurious, indifferent, insensitive, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, negligent, nonchalant, passive, pococurante, reckless, regardless, supine, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unresponsive), glacial (chill, freezing, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, winterly, wintry), gelado (bleak, chill, free-for-all, frigid, frozen, gelid, ice-cold, iced, icy, nipping, winterly, wintry), gélido (chill, frozen, gelid), encarnecido. (various references)

Romanian

rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), glacial (chill, chilly, cold, damp, frigid, frigidly, gelid, glacial, icily, icy), geros (glacial, nippy), brumos (foggy, misty), acoperit cu gheaţã (frosted), îngheţat (dead, frozen, gelid, icy). (various references)

Russian 

морозный (freezing, nippy, rimy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smrznut (frozen), sed (gray, grey, grey haired, grizzle, hoary, white hair), pokriven injem (frosted, hoar). (various references)

Spanish

frío (bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cool, distant, frigid, frosted, frosting, Parky, sharp, spent, stiff, uncommunicative), helado (cake ice, deep-frozen, freezing, frozen, glace, ice, ice cream, icy, lark, water ice), glacial (arctic, bitter, chilly, freezing, glacial, icy, stony), escarchado (frosted, glace, iced), cubierto de escarcha. (various references)

Swedish

rimfrostklädd. (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งไม่เป็นมิตร (ill-disposed, inimical). (various references)

Turkish

soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), mesafeli (distant, inapproachable, offish, remote, uncompanionable), kırağı kaplı (frosted, rimy), kır (bent, fell, field, Gray, grayish, grayness, grey, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, moor, moorland, prairie, wilderness), donuk (blear, blurred, clouded, colourless, dead, diaphanous, dim, dull, dullish, glassy, inanimate, mat, Matt, opaque, toneless), dondurucu (chilling, cryo-, cutting, deep-freezer, freezer, freezing, nipping, perishing, refrigerant), buzlu (frappe, frosted, ground, iced, icy, mat, Matt, on the rocks, with ice), buz tutmuş (icebound), ayaz (black frost, blackfrost, dry cold, freezing cold, frost, jack frost, nip), ağarmış (Hoar, hoary). (various references)

Turkmen 

jybar (freezing). (various references)

Ukrainian

укритий інеєм, морозний (winterly, wintry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lânh đạm (icily, indifferent, nonchalant), băng giá (arctic, freezing, ice-cold, icily). (various references)

Welsh

rhewllyd (frigid, icy). (various references)

gelidus. (various references)

hrinde. (various references)

Misspellings

"Frosty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Foresty, forety, Forsshey, fosty, fraty, Frety, froost, froust, frowst, frust, fruty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: forts, forty, frost, ryots, softy, story, stroy, troys, tyros.

-2 letters: fort, foys, orts, rosy, rots, ryot, soft, sort, tors, tory, toys, troy, tyro.

-3 letters: for, foy, fro, fry, oft, ors, ort, rot, sot, soy, sty, tor, toy, try.

-4 letters: of, or, os, oy, so, to, yo.

+1 letter: frowsty.

+2 letters: forestay, forestry, fortyish, frostily.

+3 letters: floristry, forestays, forsythia, styliform.

+4 letters: ferrotypes, ferryboats, festoonery, forsythias, sportfully.

+5 letters: fibrocystic, fractiously, frontolyses, frontolysis, obfuscatory, pussyfooter.