icicle
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- noun
- /ˈaɪsɪkəl/
- UK
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carámbano
- Buster, coated with snow and icicles hanging from his lip, watched sorrowfully.
- icicles hang
- icicles melt
- form icicles
You'll form icicles in your tear ducts and in your mouth.
- You'll form icicles in your tear ducts and in your mouth.
- I once got hit by an icicle taking out my bicycle out of the garage.
- It would be so cold that sometimes icicles would form in his beard and his mustache.
- Are they brave like those boys that froze to death in Korea who had icicles hanging off of their fingers?
- Big skier, strong skier, gigantic poles, tears pouring down his face, freezing into icicles on his chin.
- And that would reflect the candlelight and it would make it look sparkly, a bit like sunlight off icicles, that kind of thing.
- And we'd come in aim actually had a full beard and there'd be like icicles in his beard from condensation, right?
- Even though I'm pretty much an icicle here in this sleeping bag, I can't wait for what tomorrow brings and can't wait to reach the top of that mountain.
Examples
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I looked out the window at the frozen trees, the branches heavy with icicles ready to snap.
Fiction book (1998) -
Water dripped from an icicle and splashed into a puddle on the sidewalk.
Fiction book (1997) -
At the very least, the giant icicle tip might meet the top of the snow.
Fiction book (1991) -
An awful afterthought ran through him like an icicle to the heart.
Fiction book (1994) -
Dawn came so cold that icicles hung from the ceiling of his cell.
Fiction book (1991) -
And one time, the stagecoach driver had icicles hanging from his beard.
Fiction book (1994) -
It would be so cold that sometimes icicles would form in his beard and his mustache.
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The icicle hung from the edge of the roof, shining in the winter sunlight.
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After the thaw, we noticed a large icicle forming near the garage door.
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Be careful when walking under that icicle; it might fall and hurt someone.
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Etymology
Icicle comes from an old English word gicel, which meant 'ice' or 'a small piece of ice'. It is connected to the modern word ice, so an icicle is literally a small, pointed piece of ice that hangs from a roof or branch.