单词 | ice-cold |
释义 | ice-coldadj. 1. That is (felt to be) as cold as ice; freezing cold.Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the 17th cent. 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 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > icy-cold ice-coldeOE icy?1552 snow-cold1593 gelid1606 eOE Metres of Boethius (2009) xxvii. 3 Mereflodes yþa hrerað iscalde sæ, wecggað for winde. OE Seafarer 19 Þær ic ne gehyrde butan hlimman sæ, iscaldne wæg. 1615 P. Gordon Famous Hist. Bruce i. v. sig. H Their watrie Lord with Ice cold schivering lips Thus chyds his streams. 1687 tr. P. Barbette Thes. Chirurgiæ (ed. 4) 57 If this [nose] bleeding be too violent, clap Ice-cold water about the Patients Neck, or let him put his Pudenda in cold Vinegar. 1715 J. Delacoste tr. H. Boerhaave Aphorisms 103 The Part must be covered over with Snow or with Linnen made wet in ice-cold Water. 1798 Count Rumford in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 94 The former quantity of ice-cold water. 1808 W. Herbert Ella Rosenberg II. 123 I felt her ice-cold lips upon mine. 1851 C. Brontë Let. 8 Sept. (2000) II. 687 That ice-cold bath and 3 tumblers of cold water would extinguish us altogether. 1900 New Eng. Mag. Apr. 213/2 He died out at the poor farm of doubled-up pneumony from settin' in an ice-cold room ruther'n chop up wood ter keep him warm. 1954 Logansport (Indiana) Press 3 July 3/5 (advt.) When you have a big Acton Portable Cooler you can enjoy ice-cold Coca-Cola wherever you go. 2009 Transplantation Proc. 41 3423/1 The kidney was..then placed in ice-cold saline in preparation for transplantation. 2. figurative. Cold and unresponsive, esp. in manner. Cf. frigid adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling winter-coldOE coldc1175 cheald1340 umbrous1483 key-colda1535 frosty1548 frostbitten1564 icy1567 wintry1579 cold-hearteda1616 unwarmeda1625 dry1637 cool1641 frigidal1651 frigid1658 thieveless1725 cool-hearted1748 wintry1748 chill1751 cold as charity1795 freezing1813 ice-cold1815 chilly1841 impersonal1846 pincé1858 ice-cool1891 touch-me-not-ish1895 marmorean1902 1815 Rhode-Island Literary Repository Feb. 613 I seek no ice-cold heart; Nor thine, in truth, which erst has felt the dart Of Cupid, who, blind Urchin, when he sped Its mated arrow, aimed a shaft of lead. Is thy Endymion senseless of thy pain? 1825 Christmas Tales 208 These sanguine hopes, however, Guido destroyed on his return by his ice-cold indifference, and his total apathy to every thing connected with fashion and diplomacy. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Eclogues viii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 54 The passionless heart of this ice-cold lover of mine. 1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem viii. 79 His narrow-set eyes were ice-cold blue and his back was rambod straight. But he was clad in a similar black frock coat and black shoestring tie, and on the ring finger of his long pale hand was solid gold signet right with letters CSA. 2006 N.Y. Mag. 12 June 10/3 Barry..dragged his cartoonish biceps..to Queens, where he was received with an ice-cold reception by Mets fans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.eOE |
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