cool

I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.

The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.

Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.

Of a color, in the range of violet to green.

Be cool. There's no need to panic.

(of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.

His proposals had a cool reception.

"Well, that's cool," said Laurie to himself, "to have a picnic and never ask me!"

1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 13, in Little Women: […], part first, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, →OCLC:

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “V. Hester at her Needle”, in The Scarlet Letter:

Who will lend me a cool hundred.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

But she had wrote out a little coddleshell in her own hand a day or two afore the accident, leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XVIII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 303:

1900, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Transmigration
You remember Bulger, don't you? You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?

My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.

1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

He managed to conduct interviews with the least cool global figure – his father, Prince Charles – and the most cool, Barack Obama, in a way that allowed them both to look as good as they could.

2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian:

en:knowing how to behave astutely; popular with others

(informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.

2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.

(informal, originally African-American Vernacular) Fashionable; trendy; hip.

Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?

Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band / And my Monster Mash is the hit of the land / For you, the living, this Mash was meant too / When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you.

1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

I think astronomy is really cool.

(informal) Very interesting or exciting.

I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.

(informal) Followed by with, able to tolerate.

We're cool, right?

(informal) Of a pair of people, Having good relations.

en-adj

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)

cooler (comparative)
coolest (superlative)
coo (alternative slang)
kewl (alternative slang)
kool (alternative slang)
qewl (alternative slang)
qool (alternative slang)

→ Chinese: 酷 (kù)

→ Danish: cool

→ Dutch: cool

→ French: cool

→ German: cool

→ Hebrew: קוּל (kul)

→ Japanese: クール (kūru)

⇒ Japanese: クーデレ (kūdere)

→ English: kuudere

→ Polish: cool

→ Romanian: cool

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: кул

Latin script: kul

→ Spanish: cool

→ Swedish: cool

→ Turkish: cool

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colloquial: of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave in any situation

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colloquial: being considered as "popular" by others

From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōlaz, *kōluz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.


cool

in the cool of the morning

A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.

The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.

coo (alternative slang)
kewl (alternative slang)
kool (alternative slang)
qewl (alternative slang)
qool (alternative slang)


cool

I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.

(intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.

Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:24:

(transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.

Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.

(intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

(transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.

1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)

Big-mouth got up as fast as he could, and I was thinking how much heart he had. But I ran toward him like my life depended on it; I wanted to cool him.

1967, Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 31:

(transitive, slang, dated) To kill, murder.

Seen my homeboys coolin' way way out / Told 'em bout my mornin' cold bugged' em out

1986, “6 in the Mornin'”performed by Ice-T:

"What up, kid?" ¶ "Coolin'."

2000, Paul Beatty, Tuff: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 223:

Asbestos? Raa, dat's a dangerous t'ing boy, dat ain't good. You know what though, you guys should min' yourselves walkin' street star, dere's bere nutters about. I know you're in a crew but boy can't you jus' ''cool at someone's house?'

1997, Courttia Newland, The Scholar: A West Side Story, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 207:

(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To relax, hang out.

en-verb

cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)

cools (present singular third-person)
cooling (participle present)
cooled (participle past)
cooled (past)
coo (alternative slang)
kewl (alternative slang)
kool (alternative slang)
qewl (alternative slang)
qool (alternative slang)

keep one's breath to cool one's porridge

save one's breath to cool one's porridge

冷淡

to become less intense, e.g. less amicable

afkoelen

to make less intense, e.g. less amicable

From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlēn (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”).
Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.