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Jack Frost

noun
 
 
old-fashioned child's word

Definition

very cold weather, when it is thought of as a personLegendary and mythological charactersSnow and iceCold
(Definition of Jack Frost noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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