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单词 ice-cold
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ice-coldadj.

Brit. /ˈʌɪsˌkəʊld/, U.S. /ˈˌaɪsˈˌkoʊld/
Forms: see ice n. and cold adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ice n., cold adj.
Etymology: < ice n. + cold adj. Compare Dutch ijskoud (early 17th cent.), Middle Low German īskōlt, Middle High German īskalt (German eiskalt), Old Icelandic ískaldr, Swedish iskall (late 16th cent.), early modern Danish iskold, isekold (Danish iskold).
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).
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