cold-shoulder

US pronunciation

American soundcold shoulder

coldshoulder

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

cold - shoulder -> cold shoulder

Myanmar meaning

(v) တမင်အဖက်မလုပ်။ အေးတအေးစက် လုပ်သည်။

Full entry

cold /kǝƱld/ adj (-er , -est )

၁။ အေးသော။
feel cold ❍ have cold hands/ feet/ ears ❍ a cold bath/ climate/ day/ house/room/ wind/ winter ❍ cold weather/ water ❍ It/ The weather is getting colder. Compare HOT, WARM
၂။ အအေးခံထားသော။ ရေခဲစိမ်။
Would you like coffee or a cold drink? ❍ have cold meat and salad for supper ❍ Don't let your dinner get cold (ie Eat it while it is still warm).
၃။ (က) အေးစက်စက်နိုင်သော။ ဖော်ရွေမှုကင်းသော။ ခံစားမှုမပါသော။ a cold look/stare/welcome/reception ❍ cold fury (ie violent anger kept under control).
(ခ) (ကာမ)စိတ်မလာသော။ FRIGID ၁
၄။ (အရောင်)အေးသော။ a cold grey colour ❍ cold skies.
၅။ (ခြေရာခံလိုက်ရာ၌) မျက်ခြည်ပြတ်သွားသော။ The police tracked the stolen goods to a deserted warehouse but there the trail went cold.
၆။ (ကလေးကစားရာ၌) ရှာမတွေ့သော၊ မဖော်နိုင်သော။
၇။ (infml ) သတိလစ်သွား[သော]။ knock sb (out) cold.
၈။ သေသွား[သော]။
n
၁။ [U] အအေး။ အအေးဓာတ်။ shiver with cold ❍ the heat of summer and the cold of winter ❍ Don't stand outside in the cold. ❍ She doesn't seem to feel the cold.
၂။ [C, U] အအေးမိခြင်း။ အအေးပတ်ခြင်း။ a bad/heavy/slight cold ❍ have a cold in the head/on the chest ❍ catch (a) cold.
❏ cold-blooded /-'blʌdÇd/ adj
၁။ (biology ) သွေးအေး (သတ္တဝါ)။ Reptiles and fish are cold-blooded.
၂။ (derog ) သွေးအေးအေးဖြင့် ရက်စက်သော။
a cold-blooded murderer/murder.
❏ cold chisel n သတ္တုဖြတ် ဆောက်၊ စို့။
❏ cold comfort [IDM ] အရာမရောက်သောနှစ်သိမ့်မှု။ After losing my job it was cold comfort to be told I'd won the office raffle.
❏ cold cream n [U] (မျက်နှာအတွက်)အလှဆီ။
❏ cold cuts n [pl] (esp US ) ချက်ပြီးအအေးခံထားသော အသားလွှာ။
❏ cold frame n ပျိုးပင်များ ဥတုဒဏ်ခံနိုင်ရန် မိုးကာပေးသော မှန်အကာအရံ။
❏ cold-hearted /-'hɑ:tÇd/ adj အကြင်နာမဲ့သော။ အသည်းမာ သော။
❏ coldly adv အေးတိအေးစက်။ stare coldly at sb ❍ ‘I don't need your help,’ she said coldly.
❏ coldness n [U] အေးစက်စက်နိုင်ခြင်း။ She was hurt by his coldness (ie lack of friendly behaviour) towards her.
❏ cold-shoulder v တမင်အဖက်မလုပ်။ အေးတိအေးစက် လုပ်သည်။
❏ cold snap n (ရာသီဥတု) ဗြုန်းခနဲ ခဏအေးလာခြင်း။
❏ cold storage n [U] ရေခဲသေတ္တာစသည်၌ ထည့်ထားခြင်း။ (fig ) put a plan/an idea into cold storage (ie to decide not to use it immediately but to reserve it for later).
❏ cold sweat n [sing] ချွေးစေးထွက်ခြင်း။ ဇောချွေး ပြန်ခြင်း။ be in a cold sweat (about sth).
❏ cold sore n (infml ) ပါးစပ်၌ဖြစ်သော အနာ။
❏ cold turkey [IDM ] (sl )
၁။ (Brit ) မှန်သော်ငြားလည်း နားခါးလောက်အောင် ဗြောင်ကျလွန်းသော စကား။ talk cold turkey to/with sb.
၂။ (esp US ) ဆေးစွဲခြင်းကို အစိမ်းဖြတ် ဖြတ်ခြင်း။
❏ cold war n [U, sing] စစ်အေး။ cold-war attitudes/diplomacy/rhetoric.
❏ get/have cold feet [IDM ] (infml ) ကြောက်ဒူးတုန်သည်။ He got cold feet at the last minute.
❏ give sb/get the cold shoulder [IDM ] တမင် အဖက် မလုပ်ဘဲနေသည်။ See also COLD-SHOULDER
❏ in cold blood [IDM ] သွေးအေးအေးဖြင့်။ ရက်ရက်စက်စက်။ kill/murder/shoot sb in cold blood.
❏ leave sb cold [IDM ] ထိရောက်အောင် မစွမ်းဆောင်နိုင်။ Her entreaties left him cold.
❏ (leave sb/be) out in the cold [IDM ] ချန်ထားသည်။ When the coalition was formed, the Communists were left out in the cold.
❏ pour/throw cold water on sth [IDM ] အားမပေး။ ဖျက်သည်။ pour cold water on sb's plans/ideas/hopes.

More examples

The water was too cold for a shower.
It was bitterly cold that day.
A cold winter morning
I was cold, hungry, and thirsty.
[freezing cold] : Their house is always freezing cold.
A selection of cold meats
Her father was a cold and distant man.
She received a rather cold response.

Synonyms

chilly, freezing, icy, frosty, bitter, wintry, frozen, arctic, Siberian, ague, algid, algidity, algor, aloof, apathetic, below freezing, below zero, benumbed, biting, blasting, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, callous, chill, chilled, chilliness, cold-blooded, coldness, common cold, congelation, cool, crisp, cutting, dead, detached, distant, draft, emotionless, flu, formal, freeze, frigid, frigid conditions, frigidity, frore, frost, frostbite, frostiness, frozenness, gelid, gelidity, gelidness, glacial, glaciation, goose flesh, hardhearted, have goose bumps, hawkish, head cold, hiemal, hyperborean, icebox, iced, iciness, impersonal, imperturbable, inclemency, inclement, indifferent, influenza, inhibited, inhospitable, intense, joyless, keen, lukewarm, matter-of-fact, nipping, nippy, north, northbound, northmost, northward, numbed, numbing, one-dog night, passionless, penetrating, phlegmatic, piercing, polar, raw, rawness, refrigeration, remote, reserved, reticent, rimy, septentrional, severe, sharp, shivering, shivers, shivery, sleety, snappy, snow, snowy, spiritless, standoffish, stinging, stony, taciturn, toward North Pole, two-dog night, uncaring, unconcerned, undemonstrative, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unfeeling, unfriendly, unimpassioned, unkind, unmoved, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winter, wintertime, wintriness

Antonyms

animated, ardent, blunt, dull, eager, enthusiastic, excited, fervid, friendly, good, heat, heated, hot, ignorant, interested, kind, mild, nice, pleasant, responsive, stupid, sympathetic, temperate, warm, warmth, zealous

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