Citations:icebergy

English citations of icebergy

Adjective: "characteristic of an iceberg"

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1976 — Woody Guthrie, Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamed, E. P. Dutton & Co. (1976), →ISBN, page 9:
Flaming as our cab seat was, of course, to throw our doors wide open like we did was the worst mistake we could make — to cause such a hard blow of icebergy wind to puff the fiery flames higher.
1991 — Jim Ritchie, Shocco Tales: Southern Fried Sagas, self-published (1997), →ISBN, page 45:
Remember those signs? They had a sort of icebergy motif and the sign said "IT'S COOL INSIDE!!!" with the icebergy stuff dripping all over the word COOL.
1993 — Brian D'Amato, Beauty, Dell, →ISBN, unknown page:
It wasn't just flat ice anymore; the chunks had piled up into big icebergy formations with sand all over them, […]

Adjective: "(of an area) filled with icebergs"

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1900 — The Harmsworth Magazine, Volume 5, page 578:
"Seventeen pounds a month," replies Cap'n Swift, promptly. "It's a dangerous, icebergy sort of cruise, you know, and I've a wife and eight daughters depending on me. […]
1910 — Mrs. George Cran, A Woman in Canada, J. B. Lippincott Company (1910), page 9:
Canada was an ugly, cold, icebergy place; it had miles of flat wheat; it had no flowers; it was ugly, and I hated ugliness.
1985 — Cost and Management, Volumes 58-59, page 27:
It lies some 200 miles east of Newfoundland in tough, icebergy, storm-prone Atlantic waters that have already claimed one drilling rig — the Ocean Ranger — and the lives of its crew.
1996 — John Skow, "Heave To, Felix! Thar Blow Th' Faeroes!", Outside, January 1996:
For good nautical fun, nothing beats the blizzardy, icebergy waters of the North Sea.

Adjective: "(figuratively) cold or unfriendly in manner"

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1857 — Mary W. Janvrin, "How Jenny Was Won", Peterson's Magazine, May 1857:
"Well, so it went on for weeks and weeks — Jenny chatting and playing the agreeable to all others, but decidedly icebergy toward me. […]
1907 — Richard Marsh, The Girl and the Miracle, Methuen & Co. (1907), page 220:
[…] she won't see any one — she'll hardly even see me; and when I ask her a question a sour, icebergy sort of look comes into her face which gives me a positive pain to look at. […]
1908 — Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Deep Moat Grange, The Copp Clark Company Limited (1908), page 120:
"Who is Harriet Caw?" she asked in a kind of icebergy voice, quite differently pitched from her usual.
1909 — Richard Marsh, A Royal Indiscretion, Methuen & Co., page 128:
"Am I rude?"

"Well, if you're not rude, you're very nearly rude; anyhow you're icebergy, which is worse. […]
1912 — Mary Fisher, Kirstie, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (1912), page 6:
[…] I'm not just as sane as you are, dear cool, old, icebergy Kirstie Macdonald, whose pulse never knew a gallop fiercer than 60 degrees in the shade. […]
1913 — Doris Egerton Jones, Peter Piper, George W. Jacobs & Company, page 112:
"Call her Trixie, Peter, as she told you, and don't be too stiff and icebergy. […]
1921 — Arthur Stringer, The Wine of Life, Alfred A. Knopf (1921), page 317:
"Because you're so icebergy," she told him, looking down at the wrist which he had imprisoned.

Adjective: "(of a salad) containing a lot of iceberg lettuce"

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1994 — Alison Cook, "Keen on Kaldi", Houston Press, 14 July 1994:
Witness their icebergy "White Trash Salad" that mutated to the less incendiary "Blanco Basura" before disappearing from the menu entirely after diners proved immune to the joke.