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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 called: icing.a sugar preparation, variously flavoured and coloured, for coating and decorating cakes, biscuits, etc
a rough or matt finish on glass, silver, etc
slangthe practice of stealing a car while the owner has left it idling to defrost the windows and heat the engine
Other 51Թ Forms
- nonfrosting 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
Even the logo jumps out like a birthday cake topper, with the number “70” alternately blocky and rounded as if constructed out of frosting.
Like a cream cheese frosting slathered onto a tasty but conventional chocolate cake, the unexpected flourishes are the best part of this delicious treat.
Set on rack to cool, and prepare frosting.
It’s a humble, nostalgic dessert—spiced and sweet, cozy under a thick blanket of cream cheese frosting.
Because let’s be honest — the frosting is often what gets people talking.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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