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frosting
[ fraw-sting, fros-ting ]
noun
- a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
- a dull or lusterless finish, as on metal or glass.
- a process of highlighting the hair by bleaching selected strands.
- a material used for decorative work, as signs, displays, etc., made from coarse flakes of powdered glass.
frosting
/ ˈڰɒɪŋ /
noun
- a soft icing based on sugar and egg whites
- Also calledicing a sugar preparation, variously flavoured and coloured, for coating and decorating cakes, biscuits, etc
- a rough or matt finish on glass, silver, etc
- slang.the practice of stealing a car while the owner has left it idling to defrost the windows and heat the engine
Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴDz·ڰDz·Բ adjective
Idioms and Phrases
- the frosting on the cake, something added to make a thing better or more desirable. Also icing on the cake.
Example Sentences
Some storms are warm and wet, like frosting; others are cold and dry, like crumbly pastry.
Red No. 3, a synthetic food dye, gives products like candies, frosting and frozen desserts their bright, cherry-red color.
The dye is used primarily in candy, cakes, cookies, frozen desserts and frosting as well as some medicines, the agency said.
He added, "There's also been a spike in searches for 'frosting near me,' 'induce self coma how to' and 'cried so hard I pooped?'"
While the world outside may be fraught, “Bake Off” offers a gentle escape inside the tent, where the challenges center on flour and frosting and camaraderie and humor reign supreme.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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