frost

Frost on a leaf and grass.

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To cover with frost.
  • To become covered with frost.
  • To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
  • To anger or annoy.
  • To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
  • To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.

Origin

  • From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz, from Proto-Indo-European *prews-. Cognate with West Frisian froast ("frost"), Dutch vorst ("frost"), German Frost ("frost"), Swedish frost ("frost"), Icelandic frost ("frost"), Latin pruīna ("hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow"). Related to freeze.

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