1. A flavoured sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
   "She piped intricate designs with the buttercream frosting";
   - icing, ice
    
2. [N. Amer] The formation of frost or ice on a surface
   "The frosting on the windscreen made it difficult to see";
   - frost, icing

1. [N. Amer] (cooking) decorate with frosting
   "frost a cake";
   - ice
    
2. Cover with frost
   "ice crystals frosted the glass"
    
3. Provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
   "frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair"
    
4. Damage by frost
   "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown"

Derived forms: frostings

Type of: cover, damage, freeze, freezing, topping

Encyclopedia: Frosting