coolth

coolth
coolth (n.) 1540s, from COOL (Cf. cool) on the model of WARMTH (Cf. warmth). It persists, and was used by Pound, Tolkien, Kipling, etc., but it never has shaken its odor of facetiousness and become standard.

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