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frostinged en · ADJ

Etymology

From frosting + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having frosting.
    • The small top tier was a white-frostinged chocolate cake, just the right size for taking along on the wedding trip to the Bahamas. 1983 June, Evan Jones, “Lore of the Wedding Cake”, in Gourmet, volume XLIII, number 6, page 84:
    • This year she orders cheesecake instead of the fabulously rich, white-frostinged bakery birthday cakes we’ve all favored in the past. 2007, Anne Southworth, Next Friend: The Journal of a Foster Parent, Cleveland Heights, Ohio: Next Friend Press, →ISBN, page 183:
    • Mount Newman Mining is busy nibbling away at Mount Whaleback as if it were a huge red-frostinged cake, and Goldsworthy is doing the same at Mount Goldsworthy. 1972 November, Richard Dunlop, “World’s mightiest iron mine”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 138, number 5, pages 92–93:
    • […] a cold glass of dry champagne sitting so harmoniously and elegantly next to a piece of wedding cake, one side of which is encrusted with a rococo fantasy of white frostinged roses and garlands; […] 1982, Letitia Baldrige, “Introduction”, in Harvey Ardman, Gisele Nadeau, The Woman’s Day Book of Weddings, Indianapolis, Ind.; New York, N.Y.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., →ISBN, page x:
    • Then he looked down at his shoes, frostinged around the sides by slimy mud. 2009, S. A. Scoggin, A Novel and Efficient Synthesis of Cadaverine, Boston, Mass.: Paiutech Media, →ISBN, page 342:
    • On the way back to the inn, I grab some kind of coconutty cinnamon-roll-frostinged-chocolate-chippy dessert bar at a tiny supermarket and overhear the woman at the checkout counter speaking with another customer. 2014, Erin Beresini, Off Course: Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 60:
    • Riley told her she could eat what she wanted from her offerings, but honestly, she was off sugar right now, not even tempted by the giant chocolate chip cookies or the lush buttercream-frostinged cupcakes. 2017, MJ Fredrick, Twirling with Trouble:
    • What remained of that wall was now exposed 2x4s with the plaster-frostinged side of wood laths showing. 2011, Appleton Schneider, An Oddo-Biography, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 181:
    • I was so grateful to have held the reaction at bay that I didn’t even flinch when the journalist’s wife gave me a frostinged kiss good night. 2011, Sandra Beasley, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 151:
    • I held her during dessert, a sticky-frostinged poppy seed cake he’d bought on his way home. 2007, Gwendolen Gross, The Other Mother, New York, N.Y.: Shaye Areheart Books, →ISBN, page 169:
    • I could eat whatever I wanted without gaining weight, and at first did so—triple helpings of ice cream, huge refined white flour, sugar-napalm yellow-frostinged cakes—the most poisonous foods on earth, basically—until one day eating a lot simply lost its point. 2020, Tom Mattson, Cowboys, Fishermen, and Monks: Bitten by 3rd World Wanderlust, Lulu.com, →ISBN:

Synonyms

icinged