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Definition of Icy
Icy

Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.

Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.

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Icy Quotations

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Edgar Watson Howe

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
J. B. Priestley

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.
Hermann Maier

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
Mary Higgins Clark

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
Charles Evans Hughes

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
Johnny Mercer

Icy Translations

icy in Dutch is ijzig, ijskoud, ijs-
icy in German is eisig
icy in Hungarian is jeges, hideg
icy in Italian is ghiacciato
icy in Latin is gelidus, glacialis
icy in Norwegian is iskald, glatt, isete
icy in Portuguese is gelado
icy in Spanish is algido
icy in Swedish is iskall, isande


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