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coolchest

coolchest noun: a chest or compartment for keeping food cold; refrigerator.

Noun

coolchest (plural coolchests)

  1. A chest or compartment for keeping food cold; refrigerator
    • "Aw, not much, just some sody and buttermilk. Don't get up, I'll just get it myself." Edith followed the creaks in the floorboards back to the coolchest, slid the door, took down a quart box (on which the handsome browneyed indian maid knelt in a sunset of butter) and then took a free look in the...1996, Confrontation, numbers 60-61, page 70
    • Beside the tent mast stood a low couch and a table supporting a coolchest and bottles of drink.2006, Vernor Vinge, The Tatja Grimm's World

Forms of coolchest

pluralcoolchests
alternative formcool-chest

Origin of coolchest

From cool + chest. Compare West Frisian kuolkast and Dutch koelkast (literally “cool-chest”), German Kühlschrank.

Questions about coolchest

What does coolchest mean?
Coolchest means a chest or compartment for keeping food cold; refrigerator.
What part of speech is coolchest?
Coolchest is a noun.
What is the plural of coolchest?
The plural of coolchest is coolchests.

Words near coolchest in the dictionary

  1. Coolbaughs
  2. coolbox
  3. coolboxes
  4. coolcation
  5. coolcations
  6. coolchest
  7. coolchests
  8. coolcurnee
  9. coolcurnees
  10. cooldown
  11. cooldowns

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