cool

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They are sort of like ciggies, but the smoke is cool (not as in menthol-cool or 'cool' cool, but temperature cool).

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  1. adjective Neither warm nor very cold; moderately cold: fresh, cool water; a cool autumn evening.
  2. adjective Giving or suggesting relief from heat: a cool breeze; a cool blouse.
  3. adjective Marked by calm self-control: a cool negotiator.

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  • We all know the rather sad person from long ago who still has the sideburns and wears the polyester and thinks of himself as cool -- time stopped when he decided he was cool, and he was so satisfied with himself that he managed, for a while, to make other people think that he was still cool. —  Jessica's Well
  • They are sort of like ciggies, but the smoke is cool (not as in menthol-cool or 'cool' cool, but temperature cool). —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Spider-man, Firestar, Black Cat, Venom, and Carnage … not sure where the cool is here exactly … —  Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • Chatz ith what I call a cool cuthtomer When the fourth lad joined the bunch, there was a lot of good-natured badinage indulged in all around, after the manner of boys in general Do you intend waiting any longer fo' Landy?" —  Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails
  • It was ever cool,--cool, and with a surface smooth as a woman's,--a small hand that had a firm grip. —  Can You Forgive Her?
 

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cold ·  bright ·  quiet ·  dark

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cool:   cooler ·  coolest ·  cooling ·  cooled ·  cools
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English cole, from Old English cōl; see gel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English cool, cole, col, from Anglo-Saxon cōl (= Dutch koel = Low German köl = Old High German chuoli, Middle High German kuele, German kühl = Danish köl), cool, from calan (preterit *cōl, past participle calen) = Icelandic kala, be cold (a strong verb, of which ceald, English cold, is an old past participle adjective); akin to L. gelus, gelu, cold, frost, gelidus, cold, gelare, freeze (see cold, chill, gelid, gelatin, congeal, jelly); Old Bulgarian golotu,, ice.
  2. from cool, adjective
  3. from Middle English colen, become cool, transitive make cool, from Anglo-Saxon cōlian (= Old Saxon kōlon = Dutch koeIen = Old High German *chuoljan, chuolan, Middle High German kuelen, German kühlen = Danish köle = Swedish kyla), become cool, from ōl, cool: see cool, a., and cf. keel.
 

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