icebergy
English
Adjective
icebergy (comparative more icebergy, superlative most icebergy)
- Characteristic of an iceberg.
- 1991, Jim Ritchie, Shocco Tales: Southern Fried Sagas, self-published, published 1997, →ISBN, page 45:
- Remember those signs? They had a sort of icebergy motif and the sign said "IT'S COOL INSIDE!!!" with the icebergy stuff dripping all over the word COOL.
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- (of an area) Filled with icebergs.
- 1996 January, John Skow, “Heave To, Felix! Thar Blow Th' Faeroes!”, in Outside:
- For good nautical fun, nothing beats the blizzardy, icebergy waters of the North Sea.
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- (figurative) Cold or unfriendly in manner.
- 1857 May, Mary W. Janvrin, “How Jenny Was Won”, in Peterson's Magazine:
- "Well, so it went on for weeks and weeks — Jenny chatting and playing the agreeable to all others, but decidedly icebergy toward me. […]
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