Definitions for frosting

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frosting frost·ing

Spelling: [fraw-sting, fros-ting]

IPA: /ˈfrɔ stɪŋ, ˈfrɒs tɪŋ/

Frosting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in frosting (fginorst).

Definitions for frosting

noun

1. a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
2. a dull or lusterless finish, as on metal or glass.
3. a process of highlighting the hair by bleaching selected strands.
4. a material used for decorative work, as signs, displays, etc., made from coarse flakes of powdered glass.
5. a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
6. Also called hoarfrost. a covering of minute ice needles, formed from the atmosphere at night upon the ground and exposed objects when they have cooled by radiation below the dew point, and when the dew point is below the freezing point.
7. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, formed on the walls or contents of a freezer by the condensation of water vapor; rime.
8. the act or process of freezing.
9. coldness of manner or temperament:
10. Informal. a coolness between persons.
11. Informal. something that meets with lack of enthusiasm, as a theatrical performance or party; failure; flop.
12. a milk shake, frappe, or similar drink:

Idioms

1. the frosting on the cake, something added to make a thing better or more desirable. Also, icing on the cake.
2. degree of frost, British. the degree of temperature Fahrenheit below the freezing point:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with frost.
2. to give a frostlike surface to (glass, metal, etc.).
3. to ice (a cake, cookies, etc.).
4. to bleach selected strands of (a person's hair) in order to create highlights.
5. to kill or injure by frost:
6. to make angry:

verb (used without object)

1. to become covered with frost or freeze (often followed by up or over):
2. (of varnish, paint, etc.) to dry with a film resembling frost.

Origin of frosting

First recorded in 1610-20; frost + -ing¹

Examples for frosting

Shake vigorously and pour into a glass rimmed with frosting.

For a little balance, people can try the Cinnabon Delights – i.e. little donuts heaped with frosting.

Oh, to-day is beautiful as—as—it's beautiful as frosting on a birthday-cake!

But the frosting, Signorina, the pretty pink and white frosting!

In the window were rolls, and cookies, and buns, and little cakes with jam and frosting on them.

Flecks of frosting tumble in slow motion to light on his belly, which gently swells beneath a black sweater.

Return to top shelf for about two minutes, or until the frosting is browned.

The frosting gleams right, royally on that black hair of yours.

And when it premièred she made a kind of birthday cake, with only the single word “HAPPY” spelled out in frosting.

For the frosting, combine the butter and sugar until smooth, then stir in the coffee.