Crossword clues for frosting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frost \Frost\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Frosting.]
To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
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To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass; as, glass may be frosted by exposure to hydrofluoric acid.
While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.
--Wordsworth. To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
Frosting \Frost"ing\, n.
A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.
A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
the lightened color on part of an object, as of hair, produced by treatment with bleach or other chemicals; as only part of the object is thus treated, the final color of the object is two-toned; also, the process of producing such a two-toned effect.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s as an action; 1756 as a substance; verbal noun from frost (v.). Specific meaning "cake icing" is by 1832, so called from its appearance.
Wiktionary
WordNet
Wikipedia
Frosting may refer to:
- To be covered with a coating of Frost; also Frosted. This was the original and primary meaning of the term; most other usages are derived from it, directly or indirectly. Derived forms would include references to anything frost-like in appearance (see below).
- Icing (food), the sweet glaze used in confectionery
- Frosting (crime), a form of vehicle theft
- Frosting (decorative arts), a motif in decoration of objects
- froSTed, a pop punk band
- Frosting (Aerosol burn), Slang for the freezing of skin using an Aerosol spray.
Frosting is a UK term for motor vehicle theft occurring in winter, which involves an opportunist thief stealing a vehicle with its engine running whilst the owner de-ices it. According to a British insurance company, the crime has contributed to the theft of 135,000 unattended cars in the past five years in the UK. This can be prevented by installing a car security system.
Frosting is a decorative effect named after its resemblance to the appearance of frost. It involves making very small marks in a surface so that it appears matt rather than polished, and in glass opaque rather than optically transparent. It is often used for glass for bathrooms and toilets, but may be used on many materials and created by many processes.
Usage examples of "frosting".
Almost Home cookies, ice cream, a Pepperidge Farm frozen chocolate cake, and four cans of canned chocolate frosting to be eaten with a large spoon.
Feathers rained upon him, frosting his black hair, coating his wide bare shoulders, tangling in the black curls on his chest.
The moonbeams had stolen in to the beech clump, frosting the boles and boughs, casting a fine ghostly grey over the shadow-patterned beech-mast.
The trickle of life processes of a living Coldsleep subject generated sufficient heat to prevent frosting inside the capsule.
He'd had to buy a new bong at Bogart's in Porter Square, Cambridge because whenever he finished the last of the substances on hand he always threw out all his bongs and pipes, screens and tubes and rolling papers and roach clips, lighters and Visine and Pepto-Bismol and cookies and frosting, to eliminate all future temptation.
And there's the angel food cake, vanilla frosting in tiny crests, like waves, and four pink candles, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY L.
There was also a recipe for Lena's angel food cake with chocolate frosting that sounded delicious.
Baked myself a Kartoffelkuchen to celebrate, that night, straight from my grandmother's recipe: potatoes and buttermilks and eggs and nutmegs and vanillas, iced it with white frosting and melted bitter chocolate, ate a third of it warm and alone.
At night the sky beyond our windows was generally clear, with only a light frosting of cirrus cloud high in the depleted, lethal atmosphere.
Balls of dough and cookie sheets and cutters and frosting and little bottles of sprinkles and whatnot everywhere.
In the refrigerator, smoked fish, ham, pate and butter with a Finnish label, a cool jar of sour cream and, in the freezer, a chocolate bar and an ice-cream cake with pink and green frosting in the shape of flowers and leaves.
What amazing cakes were presented to mne-a three-tiered chocolate fudge, a carrot-pumpkin-gingeryogurt pound cake (Whit West's special recipe), an angel food with stiff sculpted egg-white frosting, and a strawberry ice-cream cake in a heart-shaped tin.
The only way I like carrots is if they're dipped in batter and deep-fat-fried or incorporated into carrot cake with lots of cream cheese frosting.
But for all of that, a dog turd covered with frosting is not a wedding cake.
His dark curling hair held a frosting of snow from the flurries that appeared suddenly over the Sierra Nevada along the Cific Ocean.