icinged en · ADJ
Etymology
From icing + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having icing.
To balance out the menu, tortes and cobblers replaced sticky-icinged cake, and Kool-Aid and root beer and Pilsner were supplanted by Veuve Clicquot and frozen gin served in silver-plated flasks for that authentic out-in-the-woods feeling I so fondly remember.
2006, Anthony Bidulka, Stain of the Berry: A Russell Quant Mystery, Toronto, Ont.: Q Press/Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 121:The rum cake is an icinged, booze-soaked, layered affair of white cake and chocolate mousse.
1984, Seymour Britchky, The Restaurants of New York, 1985 Edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 136:Nobody’s skin is going to turn brown on these eggs—or on cinnamon-apple-flavored Instant Quaker Oatmeal, or Tang, or Swiss Miss, or on cold pink-icinged Pop-Tarts with raspberry filling.
1977, John McPhee, Coming into the Country, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, pages 37–38:Bought icinged rum ring treat.
1945 February 20, Joseph Cornell, edited by Mary Ann Caws, Joseph Cornell’s Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files, New York, N.Y.; London: Thames and Hudson, published 1993, →ISBN, page 120:But they can sparkle with an engaging warmth and the bulldog set of his jaw breaks in a boyish grin when asked about his youth . . . he hunched closer to blow at an icinged crumb, —ful, youthful surroundings and the influences that shaped his formula for successful marketing bluntly expressed in a recent interview as, simply, what works.
1975, William Gaddis, J R, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 652:Their wives take time out each afternoon from keeping house in a pink-icinged bungalow in Fort Lauderdale to drive the baby to the beach and stretch out blissfully on the shining hot sand.
1949 March, Jean Libman Block, “Stop the Music”, in Cosmopolitan, volume 126, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazines Inc., page 56, column 2:Mrs. Philip Axe pushes an icinged finger into the mouth of one of her quadruplet daughters during the girls’ first birthday party at St. Rita’s Hospital in Lima, Ohio, yesterday.
1964 March 5, The Cumberland News, volume 26, number 122, Cumberland, Md., page 2: