See frosty in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"expansion": "Cognates",
"name": "col-top"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "froastich",
"t": "frosty"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian froastich (“frosty”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "vorstig",
"t": "frosty"
},
"expansion": "Dutch vorstig (“frosty”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "fröstig",
"t": "frosty"
},
"expansion": "German Low German fröstig (“frosty”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "frostig",
"t": "frosty"
},
"expansion": "German frostig (“frosty”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "frostig",
"t": "frosty"
},
"expansion": "Swedish frostig (“frosty”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "froasterch",
"t": "frosty"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian froasterch (“frosty”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "frösterg",
"t": "frosty"
},
"expansion": "German Low German frösterg (“frosty”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English frosty, forsty, from Old English forstiġ, fyrstiġ (“frosty”), from Proto-West Germanic *frostag, *frustīg, By surface analysis, frost + -y.\nCognates\nCognate 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”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "frostier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "frostiest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "er"
},
"expansion": "frosty (comparative frostier, superlative frostiest)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I'd like a frosty milkshake.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 February 26, John Walton, “How the Ukraine conflict could redraw the world air map”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2022-02-26:",
"text": "During the frostiest days of the Cold War, avoiding the Soviet Bloc meant flying north around Greenland to Alaska, refueling in Anchorage, and then around the Bering Straits to reach Japan.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Cold, chilly; icy."
],
"links": [
[
"chilly",
"chilly"
],
[
"icy",
"icy"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:cold or chilly"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "frigid"
},
{
"word": "wintry"
},
{
"word": "cold"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The frosty beverage gave him a brain freeze.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:",
"text": "In scented, frilly boutiques that she seemed to find by instinct, they exchanged her battered wardrobe for fur capes and Anna Karenina riding boots that slithered on the frosty cobble, and Pym's dismal school habit for a leather jacket and trousers without buttons for his braces.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having frost on it or in it."
],
"links": [
[
"frost",
"frost"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:frost-covered or frost-infused"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "frostbound"
},
{
"word": "frosted"
},
{
"word": "rimed"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2010 November 28, Janet Maslin, “A New York Tale of Art, Money and Ambition”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "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.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having an aloof or inhospitable manner."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) Having an aloof or inhospitable manner."
],
"senseid": [
"en:aloof or inhospitable"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cool"
},
{
"word": "harsh"
},
{
"word": "severe"
},
{
"word": "aloof"
},
{
"word": "stern"
}
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɹɒsti/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɹɔsti/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɹɑs-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-frosty.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-au-frosty.ogg/En-au-frosty.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-au-frosty.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒsti"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "ayaz"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mrazovit",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "мразовит"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kù hán de",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "酷寒的"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "mrazivý"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "vorstig"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "jäätävä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "jääkylmä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "froid"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "gelé"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "givré"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "glacial"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "xeadento"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "xélido"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "frostig"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "pakhnṓdēs",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "παχνώδης"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "koldeta"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "gelido"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "ghiacciato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "gelato"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "frosty"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "frostich"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "mroźny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "gélido"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "moróznyj",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "моро́зный"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "reòta"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "cold, chilly",
"word": "rhewllyd"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zaskrežen",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "заскрежен"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bèi shuāng fù gài de",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "被霜覆盖的"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "huurteinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "givré"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "gelé"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "pakhnṓdēs",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "παχνώδης"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "coperto di ghiaccio"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "pruīnōsus"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "hauhunga"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "frostich"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "oszroniony"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "geado"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "having frost on it",
"word": "reòta"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "having an aloof or inhospitable manner",
"word": "بارد"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lěng mò",
"sense": "having an aloof or inhospitable manner",
"word": "冷漠的"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having an aloof or inhospitable manner",
"word": "jäätävä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having an aloof or inhospitable manner",
"word": "froid"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having an aloof or inhospitable manner",
"word": "glacial"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "having an aloof or inhospitable manner",
"word": "doicheallach"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having an aloof or inhospitable manner",
"word": "lodowaty"
}
],
"word": "frosty"
}
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