frosting
substantivoverboatestado nos diálogos
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- //ˈfɹɑst.ɪŋ//
Icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.
substantivo
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Icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.
“[…] Cities aren’t like frosted cake — and, anyhow, even the cake didn’t keep very well. I tried it, and it dried up, ’specially the frosting. I reckon the time to take frosting and good times is while they are going; so I want to see all I can now while I’m here.”
- 2
A layer of frost.
- 3
The theft of a car while it is left unattended, especially when its engine is left running in the winter to defrost the car.
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *prews- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *prustós Proto-Germanic *frustaz Proto-West Germanic *frost Old English frost Middle English frost English frost English -ing English frosting From frost + -ing.
verbo
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Também uma forma de frostpresent participle and gerund of frost
Formas
- plural
- frostings
frosting · Icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.
frosty · Cold, chilly; icy.Frosty · A generic name for a snowman.frown · A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought…