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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
frosty
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cold/frosty morning
▪ Porridge tastes good on a cold morning.
a cool/chilly/frosty reception (=not friendly or approving)
▪ His idea got a cool reception from his colleagues.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
morning
▪ Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning.
night
▪ I hate frosty nights and damp dark days with sleety rain - if that is New Year weather you can keep it.
▪ Tiny birds spent frosty nights sleeping on rooftops and on branches.
▪ No doubt if she had been less absorbed, she would have heard the footsteps ring out into the frosty night behind her.
▪ Dense foggy mornings, frosty nights, a lucent crown of brilliant red and golden leaves on the distant ridge.
▪ Expect frosty nights, foggy dawns, and snow on the Alpine passes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After their quarrel things between Maria and her father were rather frosty.
▪ I tapped on the frosty window and said, "Anybody home?"
▪ It was a frosty autumn morning with spiders' webs glistening in the frozen grass.
▪ They were both shivering slightly from the frosty air.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His voice had become unmistakably frosty.
▪ I hate frosty nights and damp dark days with sleety rain - if that is New Year weather you can keep it.
▪ It has been sent back with a frosty message from one of his constituents, who is unidentified.
▪ January 28, 1989 was a cold, frosty day with mist across the Fens.
▪ The morning of December 31, 1862, came on with a cloudless sky and a ringing, frosty air.
▪ When we left the forest, pale moonlight reflected dimly on the frosty ground and it was easier to see.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frosty

Frosty \Frost"y\, a. [Cf. AS. fyrstig.]

  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.
    --Johnson.

  4. Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frosty

Old English forstig, fyrstig "as cold as frost;" see frost (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use from late 14c. Related: Frostily; frostiness. Similar formation in Dutch vorstig, German frostig.

Wiktionary
frosty

a. 1 Cold, chilly. 2 Having frost on it. 3 (context figuratively English) Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.

WordNet
frosty
  1. adj. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: frigid, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry]

  2. covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner [syn: rimed, rimy]

  3. pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term) [syn: crisp, nipping, nippy, snappy, parky]

  4. [also: frostiest, frostier]

Wikipedia
Frosty (frozen dairy dessert)

The Frosty is the signature frozen dessert of Wendy’s fast-food restaurants.

Frosty

Frosty, Frostie, or Frosties and similar may refer to the adjective "frosty", meaning "frozen" or "covered with frost". The terms may also apply to:

Usage examples of "frosty".

They came across other horse-like antelope, with backs and limbs of ebony black, bellies of frosty white, and huge backswept scimitar-shaped horns.

Meredith never flinched or broke eye contact with Perez, but Carmen sensed his frosty silence was a simple lack of any answer to that.

On my second visit, to attend the Nativity play, the place had been throbbing with parents, teachers and governors and there had been a Christmassy atmosphere in the frosty air.

The city manager smiled back, but again the smile was more than a little frosty.

Bending over, he saw that it was a deerfly lit up like an ember, but frosty green instead of orange.

In their faint and frosty glow, Fran could see the slabs of the Flatirons rising in the west.

She sagged against the scaly bark of a longleaf pine, her breath forming a frosty cloud in the air, grief and loneliness overwhelming her.

Another thing, Trillium Covert and Madrono Ranch were happily situated in a narrow thermal belt, so that in the frosty mornings of winter the temperature was always several degrees higher than in the rest of the valley.

On the other side of the Palmyrene boy, one of the Gaulish wizards was almost grinning, blowing frosty breath up into the air.

As I lay down, the gallop under the dark pines, the frosty moon, the forest fires, the flaring lights and roaring din of Truckee faded as dreams fade, and eight hours later a pure, pink dawn divulged a level blasted region, with grey sage brush growing out of a soil encrusted with alkali, and bounded on either side by low glaring ridges.

The creature emitted a whole host of pale plasms which darted away in all directions and presently returned with several dozen small spheres sparkling with a frosty blue light.

Michaela and Eliot sat at the kitchen table, sullenly eyeing a plate of frosty prepackaged strudel.

And down by Kosciusko, where the pine-clad ridges raise Their torn and rugged battlements on high, Where the air is clear as crystal, and the white stars fairly blaze At midnight in the cold and frosty sky, And where around the Overflow the reedbeds sweep and sway To the breezes, and the rolling plains are wide, The man from Snowy River is a household word to-day, And the stockmen tell the story of his ride.

They were a complicated frieze against a spackle of frosty stars, sharp and harshly lit in the clarity of vacuum.

As to Ada and me, whom he had wrapped up with great care, the night being sharp and frosty, we trembled from head to foot.