Added 9 October 2026
ice-cold
/ˈaɪskəʊld/ adjective
In Latin: gelidus Wiktionary
adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about ice-cold at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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Very cold.
I'm going to put my coat back on — I'm ice-cold again!
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Of a person, look, or behavior: without emotion; distant; silently disapproving.
I don't know why she gave me an ice-cold look — I had thought that the topic of conversation was totally innocuous.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point).
ice-cold beer here
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Origin
From Middle English *is-cold, from Old English īsċeald; equivalent to ice + cold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ieskoold (“ice-cold”), West Frisian iiskâld (“ice-cold”), Dutch ijskoud (“ice-cold”), Afrikaans yskoud (“ice-cold”), German Low German ieskold (“ice-cold”), German eiskalt (“ice-cold”), Yiddish אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt, “ice-cold”), Danish iskold (“ice-cold”), Swedish iskall (“ice-cold”), Norwegian iskald (“ice-cold”), Faroese ísakaldur (“ice-cold”), Icelandic ískaldur (“ice-cold”).
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