Jack Frost

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noun

frost or freezing cold personified.

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Origin of Jack Frost

First recorded in 1815–25

Words nearby Jack Frost

Jackelyn, jackeroo, jacket, jackey, jackfish, Jack Frost, jackfruit, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon, jackhammer, Jackie, jackie tar

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Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.
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As I size up the scene, Jack White now wears the crown … and he wears it well.
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Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.
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She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.
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How on earth can Jack find time to think about women with the immense amount of work he gets through?
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
In these archipelagos the waters being shallow, the frost was quite intense enough to cool them to the bottom.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Jack Frost

Jack Frost

noun

a personification of frost or winter

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