frosted
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frosted (comparative more frosted, superlative most frosted)
- Covered in frost; frosty.
- Eiswein is made from frosted grapes.
- Appearing to be covered in frost.
- She installed frosted windows, since there was a clear view of her bathroom from her neighbor's bedroom.
- 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', pages 65–66:
- The vestibule has a row of brass mailboxes and a varnished umbrella rack and a rubber mat on the marble floor and two doors, one to the right with frosted glass and another in front of them of wire-reinforced glass through which he sees rubber-treaded stairs.
- Damaged by frost.
- Coordinate term: frostbitten
- Frosted fruit will be unsalable.
- (slang) Extremely intoxicated.
- I was so frosted after drinking that 12-pack.
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- (covered in frost): frosty, frostbound, rimed
- (appearing to be covered in frost):
- (damaged by frost): frostbitten
- (extremely intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk
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Noun edit
frosted (plural frosteds)
- A kind of milkshake made with ice cream.
- 1947, Geoffrey Hellman, How to Disappear for an Hour, page 266:
- Except for those times when I am drugging myself with movies, vanilla frosteds, the latest novel, or cremes de nepenthe, it is difficult for me to avoid the bothersome thought […]
- 1957, Dorothy Erskine, Patrick Dennis, The Pink Hotel, page 49:
- They had continued to laugh at the milk bar, tasting in the chocolate frosteds the unlikely flavor of Mr. Mather's turpitude.
- 1970, CSA Super Markets, volume 46, page 106:
- Opening with standard flavors and moving quickly to grape, raspberry, blueberry, cinnamon, apple and the frosteds, the variety is putting many chains in a one-out-for-every-one-in frame of mind.