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icicle

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as in iceberg
a cold aloof person his wife is such an icicle you're lucky to get so much as a greeting from her

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“Icicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icicle. Accessed 3 Dec. 2022.

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