icebergy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From iceberg +‎ -y.

Adjective[edit]

icebergy (comparative more icebergy, superlative most icebergy)

  1. 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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  2. (of an area) Filled with icebergs.
  3. (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. []
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:icebergy.