| 单词 | finger-cold |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfinger-cold finger-cold adj. now rare (English regional (southern) in later use) (of weather) cold enough to cause the fingers to become numb. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > very intensely cold ice-coldeOE frostyOE frosty cold?a1430 frore1483 chill-cold1567 frory?1567 frostbiting1593 numb-cold1597 chilling-cold1616 frigidious1630 frigid1639 finger-cold1752 Siberian1789 freezy1827 ice-cool1853 Arctic1876 1752 W. Douglass Summary State Brit. Settlements N.-Amer. II. xi. 210 Travelling in Connecticut from Pensylvania, 1716 June 26, Finger cold, Roads froze, Ice thick as a Crown-Piece. 1862 H. D. Thoreau in Atlantic Monthly Nov. 525/1 It is finger-cold. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. ‘'Twas downright finger-cold first thing this marning.’ 1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 40/2 It's wot I calls a finger-cold morning. < as lemmas |
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