Jack Frost

English 2020 December 21 thumb|Jack Frost on the cover of a piece of sheet music called Little Jack Frost Quadrilles (1863).n n1 Arthur Henry Brown Little Jack Frost Quadrilles London B. Williams [1863] 220814516. Etymology From en Jack placeholder or conventional name for any man frost.n 59998147 March 2018 1; n Pronunciation en /ˌdʒæk ˈfɹɒst/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Jack Frost.wav Southern England en /ˌdʒæk ˈfɹɑst/ /-ˈfɹɔst/ GA en ɒst 2 Proper noun Jack Frost A personification of frosty weather or winter. en Old Man Winter en Of Mirth and Jollity, Christmas Gambols, Eating, Drinking, Kissing, and Other Diversions of the Holydays Round about Our Coal-fire, or Christmas Entertainments [...] London Printed for J. Robertsin Warwick-lane, and sold by the booksellers in town and country. 1740 29305613 Christmas Entertainments:Wherein is Described Abundance of Fiddle-faddle-stuff, Raw-heads, Bloody-bons, Buggybows, and Such Like Horrible Bodies; Eating, Drinking, Kissing, & Other Diversions; Witches, Wizards, Conjurers, and Their Merry Pranks; Fairies, Spectres, Ghosts, & Apparitions; a Right Merrie Tale:– The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean; Curious Memoirs of Old Father Christmas. Illustrated with Many Diverting Cuts. London Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhall Presse; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co. 1883 6 https://books.google.com/books?id=YDwPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA6 29026761 This time of Year being cold and frosty generally speaking, or when Jack Frost commonly takes us by the Nose, the Diversions are always within Doors, either in Exercise or by the Fire-side. en Isaac Taylor Lapland. 10. Lapland Witch Selling a Wind. Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-home Travellers London Printed for J. Harris,corner of St. Paul’s Church Yard. 1818 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=6lQDAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA10-IA1 156117741 Well, and the inside is all lined with skins, warm enough; and there's a fire in the middle; [...] Jack frost may whistle out doors if he pleases, but he can hardly get his nose in here. en George Wise Falls Church, Upton’s and Munson’s Hills History of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, C.S.A. Baltimore, Md. Kelly, Piet & Company 1870 47 https://books.google.com/books?id=AS77Cym7LL0C&pg=PA47 1514671 December's severely cold nights made dreadful havoc with the soldiers[’] toes on the out posts, where for six long hours without fire or aught to shield from Jack Frost’s intrusion, they trod their lonely beat, dreaming of home and friends far away. en Maynard Matthews District Reports The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province Times Printing and Publishing Company 1 June 1901 7 June 1901 IV 7 196–197 https://archive.org/details/natalagricultura4190nata/page/197/mode/1up 18228020 Autumn has given way to winter once more, and happily the late and heavy rains fattened the ripening crops now reaping; and left everywhere through this district a thick growth of grass, for winter grazing; long enough, generally, to shield from Jack Frost, by its ample tops and seed heads, a bite of succulent stalk above the roots. en w:Laura Ingalls Wilder w:Little House in the Big Woods New York, N.Y. Harper 1932 2016 978-0-06-248392-8 Ma said that Jack Frost came in the night and made the pictures, while everyone was asleep. Laura thought that Jack Frost was a little man all snowy white, wearing a glittering white pointed cap and soft white kneeboots made of deerskin. en w:Mel Tormé; Bob Wells Mel Tormé The Christmas Song: Merry Christmas to You: S.A.T.B. with Incidental Soprano Solos and Piano Accompaniment New York, N.Y. E. H. Morris 1945 1946 38019191 Chestnuts roasting on an open fire / Jack Frost nipping at your nose / Yuletide carols being sung by a choir / And folks dressed up like Eskimos en Sally Schweizer Celebrations: ‘She’s Crying for Joy!’ Well, I Wonder: Childhood in the Modern World: A Handbook for Parents, Carers and Teachers Bringing Spirit to Life Forest Row, East Sussex Sophia Books 2006 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=THGTIt3BNuQC&pg=PA169 978-1-85584-124-6 Winter is damp, dark and cold, but the new year makes me hopeful of the spring and summer to come, [...] Animals need extra care, logs are brought in to unfreeze by the fire, the ice is scraped off the car. Jack Frost paints glorious pictures on (single-glazed) windows. en Marci Alborghetti December 15: Jack Frost … and Friends It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ’s Mass Collegeville, Minn. Liturgical Press 2013 15 https://books.google.com/books?id=CQ-wAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA15 978-0-8146-3852-1 Elves, flying reindeer, wood sprites, talking snowmen, and even Jack Frost, or Grandfather Frost in Russia, are all out and about during Advent. [...] Jack Frost, as those of us who live in northern climates well know, can be an annoying sprite who will make winter icy or stormy on a whim. Translations personification of winter Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 冰霜傑克 Bīngshuāng Jiékè Japanese: ja ジャックフロスト jakkufurosuto Korean: ko 잭 프로스트 Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Kong Vinter Nynorsk: nn Kong Vinter Swedish: sv Kung Frost c, sv Kung Bore c, sv Kung Vinter c Welsh: cy Jac y Rhew m, cy Siôn Barrug m See also en Father Frost en Mother Nature Notes n References Further reading en Characters from folklore Personifications Winter Male people Christmas