frosted

frost +‎ -ed

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frosted (comparative more frosted, superlative most frosted)

1. Covered in frost; frosty.

   Eiswein is made from frosted grapes.

2. 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.

3. Damaged by frost.

   Coordinate term: frostbitten

   Frosted fruit will be unsalable.

4. (slang) Extremely intoxicated.

   I was so frosted after drinking that 12-pack.

• (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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frosted (plural frosteds)

1. 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.

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