icicle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a hanging, tapering piece of ice formed when dripping water freezes

   A long icicle hung from the edge of the roof after the thaw refroze.

From Middle English isykle, descended from an Old English compound of is, 'ice,' and gicel, 'icicle.' Its ending was later reshaped under the influence of learned words ending in -icle, obscuring the original native compound.

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