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frosty Adjective [frostier, frostiest] 1. characterized by frost: the frosty air 2. covered by frost 3. unfriendly or disapproving: a frosty reception from the bank manager frostily adv
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frosty adjective 3. unfriendly, discouraging, icy, frigid, off-putting Brit. (informal) unenthusiastic, unwelcoming, standoffish, cold as ice Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It was frosty and the air was sharp, but toward evening the sky became overcast and it began to thaw. Leslie came over to the house of dreams one frosty October night, when moonlit mists were hanging over the harbor and curling like silver ribbons along the seaward glens. But as I was saying," he resumed, as the negro, still ostentatiously pulling on his yellow gloves, betook himself briskly towards the watering-place, a queer music-hall figure against that grey and frosty scene--"as I was saying, I couldn't describe the man very minutely, but he had a flourish and old-fashioned whiskers and moustachios, dark or dyed, as in the pictures of foreign financiers, round his neck was wrapped a long purple scarf that thrashed out in the wind as he walked. |
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