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Frosty   /frˈɔsti/   Listen
adjective
Frosty  adj.  
1.
Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
2.
Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
3.
Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
4.
Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.





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"Frosty" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nearly a quarter of an hour elapsed before the child could be revived, and meantime the distracted parents quarrelled and shouted, accusing one another of having compelled the lad to go out walking that morning in such cold, frosty weather. It was evidently that foolish outing which had chilled him. At least, this was what they said to one another by way of quieting their anxiety. Constance, while she held her boy in her arms, pictured him as dead. It occurred to her for the first time that she might possibly lose him. ...
— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola
... clear, frosty morning of midwinter. Trove had risen early and was walking out on a long pike that divided the village of Hillsborough and cut the waste of snow, winding over hills and dipping into valleys, from Lake Champlain to Lake Ontario. The air was cold but full of magic ...
— Darrel of the Blessed Isles • Irving Bacheller
... smile or curse, love just the same Brands me and burns. O, cruel woman, spare! O would I were a rock, to 'scape this flame Far off upon the frosty mountains there! ...
— The Elegies of Tibullus • Tibullus
... hotel the same afternoon, met Mrs. Engel in the hall; her formal bow, in which frosty disapproval of the sin, and a widow's tenderness for the middle-aged sinner, if repentant, were discreetly mingled, amused if it scarcely flattered him. He was still smiling at his recollection of the ...
— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore
... how, when round the frosty pole, The northern dawn was red, The mountain-wolf and wild-cat stole, To banquet ...
— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various


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