单词 | jack frost |
释义 | Jack Frostn. Frost or frosty weather personified. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > frost frosteOE glare1567 Jack Frost?1730 ice queen1818 ?1730 Round about Coal-fire ii. 8 Jack-Frost commonly takes us by the Nose. 1826 Sporting Mag. 17 376 Jack Frost, however, put a veto on our morning's sport. 1872 C. Hardwick Trad., Superstitions, & Folk-lore 53 The blustering of old Boreas, and the frigid embrace of ‘Jack Frost’. 1930 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 23 Nov. 6 b/5 Jack Frost had not forgotten to visit our windows, decorating them with shining ice ferns. 2016 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 15 Oct. f8 It's that chilly devil Jack Frost that causes those fall colour changes to get under way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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