iceboxn.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪsbɒks/, U.S.

/ˈaɪsˌbɑks/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ice n., box n.²

Etymology: < ice n. + box n.²

1. Originally: a box or compartment for holding ice or that is kept cool by means of ice; an ice chest. Now usually: (a) (chiefly North American, originally U.S.) a unit (esp. a kitchen appliance) in which perishable goods are stored under refrigerated conditions, a refrigerator; (b) chiefly British a freezing compartment in a refrigerator for making and storing ice.

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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > receptacle for ice

icebox1792

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for

ice room1758

ice chamber1768

icebox1792

cool chamber1801

ice chest1826

freezer1847

refrigerator1861

chill-room1884

ice cave1884

cold store1895

cool store1906

Coolgardie?1924

fridge1926

Frigidaire1926

deep freeze1941

chest freezer1947

hydro-cooler1947

reefer1958

fridge-freezer1971

flash freezer1984

blast freezer1986

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > device for maintaining low temperature > box

icebox1792

1792 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 3 Sept. (advt.) An excellent side board, with ice box and drawers.

1846 St. Louis (Missouri) Reveille 9 Sept. 4/5 Everything requisite for funerals, such as Hearse, Carriages,..Ice, Ice-boxes.

1874 Sci. Rec. 134 The serpentine pipes of the ice-box are surrounded by a solution of hydrochlorate of lime.

1908 P. G. Wodehouse & H. Westbrook Globe by Way Bk. 13/2 His brain worked like a buzz-saw in an ice-box.

1921 Amer. Woman Jan. 9/1 With a covered bowl or jelly tumbler in the ice-box,..the hostess is prepared for any emergency in the line of unexpected visitors.

1951 W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun iii. 267 She's usually got a bottle of sody pop in the icebox.

1987 F. Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes 293 Idgie went over to the icebox in the kitchen and handed him a bouquet of tiny sweetheart roses.

2009 New Yorker 8 June 122/2 What my mother would have called a kakabarly—a large, foaming broth into which she emptied the forlorn and highly miscellaneous contents of her icebox.

2. Originally U.S. In extended use: a person regarded as cold or (emotionally) unresponsive; (also) a place or a region that is characteristically cold or chilly. Also figurative.In quot. 1909 as a nickname.

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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > person

icicle1648

frigot1683

frost piece1690

anthropolith1804

iceberg1840

touch-me-not1840

icebox1909

cold fish1941

the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific

temperate zone1556

horse latitudes1777

sunland1827

iceland1842

pole of cold1850

storm-area1853

cloud-belt1860

cloud-ring1860

snow-belt1874

taiga1888

storm-zone1889

storm-belt1891

cold pole1909

icebox1909

1909 J. London in Sat. Evening Post 22 May 3/2 When a freshman he had been baptized ‘Ice-Box’ by his warmer-blooded fellows.

1915 Congregationalist 20 May The prison discipline was an ice-box for overheated temper, and he learned how to solidify his gaseous feelings and therefore to restrain them.

1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 226/1 Old Jim was telling how he had been locked by mistake in the deadhouse icebox, with a hundred corpses hanging by ear clamps all around him.

1938 D. Castle Do your Own Time v. 45 Scavengers..cut down the hanged men, place them in cheap coffins, and cart them to the ‘ice box’, as the morgue is known in prison.

1943 W. Lewis Let. 31 Mar. (1963) 352 We are freezing out here [i.e. in Canada] slowly, in this icebox of a country.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 173 Icebox, a co-ed engaged to a young man in a distant college who refuses to date at all while at college.

1983 R. Smith in W. Lewis Self Condemned 412 There are, it is true, idiotic puppets in the sanctimonious ice-box of Momaco.

2007 Smithsonian Mar. 28/3 Though ridiculed as an ‘icebox’, or a ‘polar bear garden’, some 586,000 square miles of Alaska join America when U.S. Secretary of State William Henry Seward signs a treaty to buy the land from Russia.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	icebox
释义	iceboxn. Brit. /ˈʌɪsbɒks/, U.S. /ˈaɪsˌbɑks/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ice n., box n.² Etymology: < ice n. + box n.² 1. Originally: a box or compartment for holding ice or that is kept cool by means of ice; an ice chest. Now usually: (a) (chiefly North American, originally U.S.) a unit (esp. a kitchen appliance) in which perishable goods are stored under refrigerated conditions, a refrigerator; (b) chiefly British a freezing compartment in a refrigerator for making and storing ice. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > receptacle for ice icebox1792 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for ice room1758 ice chamber1768 icebox1792 cool chamber1801 ice chest1826 freezer1847 refrigerator1861 chill-room1884 ice cave1884 cold store1895 cool store1906 Coolgardie?1924 fridge1926 Frigidaire1926 deep freeze1941 chest freezer1947 hydro-cooler1947 reefer1958 fridge-freezer1971 flash freezer1984 blast freezer1986 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > device for maintaining low temperature > box icebox1792 1792 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 3 Sept. (advt.) An excellent side board, with ice box and drawers. 1846 St. Louis (Missouri) Reveille 9 Sept. 4/5 Everything requisite for funerals, such as Hearse, Carriages,..Ice, Ice-boxes. 1874 Sci. Rec. 134 The serpentine pipes of the ice-box are surrounded by a solution of hydrochlorate of lime. 1908 P. G. Wodehouse & H. Westbrook Globe by Way Bk. 13/2 His brain worked like a buzz-saw in an ice-box. 1921 Amer. Woman Jan. 9/1 With a covered bowl or jelly tumbler in the ice-box,..the hostess is prepared for any emergency in the line of unexpected visitors. 1951 W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun iii. 267 She's usually got a bottle of sody pop in the icebox. 1987 F. Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes 293 Idgie went over to the icebox in the kitchen and handed him a bouquet of tiny sweetheart roses. 2009 New Yorker 8 June 122/2 What my mother would have called a kakabarly—a large, foaming broth into which she emptied the forlorn and highly miscellaneous contents of her icebox. 2. Originally U.S. In extended use: a person regarded as cold or (emotionally) unresponsive; (also) a place or a region that is characteristically cold or chilly. Also figurative.In quot. 1909 as a nickname. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > person icicle1648 frigot1683 frost piece1690 anthropolith1804 iceberg1840 touch-me-not1840 icebox1909 cold fish1941 the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific temperate zone1556 horse latitudes1777 sunland1827 iceland1842 pole of cold1850 storm-area1853 cloud-belt1860 cloud-ring1860 snow-belt1874 taiga1888 storm-zone1889 storm-belt1891 cold pole1909 icebox1909 1909 J. London in Sat. Evening Post 22 May 3/2 When a freshman he had been baptized ‘Ice-Box’ by his warmer-blooded fellows. 1915 Congregationalist 20 May The prison discipline was an ice-box for overheated temper, and he learned how to solidify his gaseous feelings and therefore to restrain them. 1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 226/1 Old Jim was telling how he had been locked by mistake in the deadhouse icebox, with a hundred corpses hanging by ear clamps all around him. 1938 D. Castle Do your Own Time v. 45 Scavengers..cut down the hanged men, place them in cheap coffins, and cart them to the ‘ice box’, as the morgue is known in prison. 1943 W. Lewis Let. 31 Mar. (1963) 352 We are freezing out here [i.e. in Canada] slowly, in this icebox of a country. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 173 Icebox, a co-ed engaged to a young man in a distant college who refuses to date at all while at college. 1983 R. Smith in W. Lewis Self Condemned 412 There are, it is true, idiotic puppets in the sanctimonious ice-box of Momaco. 2007 Smithsonian Mar. 28/3 Though ridiculed as an ‘icebox’, or a ‘polar bear garden’, some 586,000 square miles of Alaska join America when U.S. Secretary of State William Henry Seward signs a treaty to buy the land from Russia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1792
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