frosting

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English

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Chocolate cupcakes with raspberry buttercream frosting.

Etymology

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From frost +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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frosting (countable and uncountable, plural frostings)

  1. (US) Icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.
    • 1915, Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up[1], The Page Company:
      [] Cities aren’t like frosted cake — and, anyhow, even the cake didn’t keep very well. I tried it, and it dried up, ’specially the frosting. I reckon the time to take frosting and good times is while they are going; so I want to see all I can now while I’m here.”
  2. A layer of frost.
  3. The theft of a car while it is left unattended, especially when its engine is left running in the winter to defrost the car.[1]

Usage notes

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  • See the usage note about icing regarding the use of the words icing and frosting.
  • The plural form is used for multiple varieties of frosting; a single type of frosting is itself uncountable.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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frosting

  1. present participle and gerund of frost

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