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frostings

frostings is the plural of frosting.

Meaning of frosting

Noun

frosting (countable and uncountable, plural frostings)

  1. (US) Icing, 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 Company
    Synonyms:
    glazing
  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.

Questions about frostings

What is frostings the plural of?
Frostings is the plural of frosting.

Words near frostings in the dictionary

  1. frosting
  2. frosting on the cake
  3. frosting up
  4. frostinged
  5. frostinglike
  6. frostings
  7. frostless
  8. frostlessness
  9. frostlike
  10. frostline
  11. frostlines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frostings (page history and authors); frosting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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