Meanings
plural frostings
- UScountableuncountableIcing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.
“[…] 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.”
1915, Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up, The Page CompanySynonyms: glazing
- countableuncountableA layer of frost.
- countableuncountableThe theft of a car while it is left unattended, especially when its engine is left running in the winter to defrost the car.
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of frost
Synonyms & antonyms
nounIcing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*prews-
- Proto-Indo-European*prustós
- Proto-Germanic*frustaz
- Proto-West Germanic*frost
- Old Englishfrost
- Middle Englishfrost
- Englishfrost
- Englishfrosting
Translations
Czech námraza
- námrazaa layer of frost
Polish szron
- szrona layer of frost
Cite this entry
frosting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frosting
“frosting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frosting. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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