frosty

Meaning

Adjective

• Cold, chilly.
• Having frost on it.
• Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.

Origin

• From Middle English frosty, forsty, from Old English forstiġ, fyrstiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *frostag, *frustīg, equivalent to frost + -y. Cognate with West Frisian froastich, Dutch vorstig, German Low German fröstig, German frostig, Swedish frostig. Compare also Saterland Frisian froasterch, German Low German frösterg.