frostnipn.
/ˈfrɒs(t)nɪp/, U.S. /ˈfrɔs(t)ˌnɪp/, /ˈfrɑs(t)ˌnɪp/ Originally: †extremely cold air or wind; an instance of this (obsolete). In later use: frostbite, spec. in a less severe form affecting only the superficial layers of the skin; †an instance of this (obsolete).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > frost-bite
frostbiting1562
frostnip1618
frostbite1798
1618 Owles Almanacke 30 The Winter this Yeare will be as like a messe of mustard as may be; Cold and moyst, of a phlegmatique complexion; onely hot in the nose, by vertue of the frost-nip.
1700 C. Hoole Æsopi Fabulæ i. cxxxiv. 88 Thou wilt have less presumption at the first frost nips [L. rigores], when both thy leaves shall fall down, and all thy greenness shall be gone.
1771 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 18/1 He was obliged to correct many of the crew, to force them to keep the deck, and four of them, died by frost-nips.
1836 New-York Mirror 3 Dec. 177/3 Ye're as sharp as a frost-nip.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xiii. 174 Two of his toes had been lost by frost-nip.
1988 G. Prater Snowshoeing (ed. 3) xi. 140 Frost nip when thawed immediately does not damage the tissues.
2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 5 Feb. i. 8/5 It doesn't take long to progress from frostnip to frostbite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
frostnipv.
/ˈfrɒs(t)nɪp/, U.S. /ˈfrɔs(t)ˌnɪp/, /ˈfrɑs(t)ˌnɪp/ transitive. To injure or damage by frost or extreme cold (frequently in figurative contexts and figurative); spec. to affect with frostnip. Frequently in passive. Cf. frostbite v.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > affect or injure with intense cold or frost
frostbite1574
frostnip1600
singe1600
freezea1616
frost1623
touch1794
1600 J. Pory in tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. Ded. Lo heere the first fruits, or rather the tender buddes and blossomes of my labours. Which least in this their winterly sprouting they might perhaps by some bitter blasts of censure be frost-nipped, I humbly recommend to your Honorable protection.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. i. 241 They..will not so much as frostnip their souls with a cold thought of want hereafter.
1773 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 129 All its other branches were at the very time frost-nipt.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. 219 Its expanding wings had been frost-nipped by disappointment.
1828 G. Croly Tales Great St. Bernard II. 159 After serving three years as a klepht, I grew tired of being starved, frost-nipped, and fired at.
1876 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. II. 521/1 The germs which the period contained were first frost-nipped by the tyrannical and barren dogmatism.
1909 W. T. Wittman Twelve Months Work in Poultry Yard 34 More hens have died of this sickness than have been frost nipped by sleeping outdoors.
1940 J. B. Cabell Hamlet had Uncle xxxvi. 241 An illicit bedfellow by whose naïve iniquity any sort of ardor would be frost-nipped.
1965 H. Lewis Wife to Charles II xvi. 113 Charles thawed a little but the blossoming friendship had been frost-nipped.
1999 Backpacker Sept. 113/1 How fast was..the arctic blast that frostnipped your nose?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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