adjective General Slang

baltic

· adjective · scouse

Freezing cold.

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Bitterly, eye-watering cold. Heard across the UK now but lives strongest in Scouse and Scottish speech. Coat-and-two-jumpers weather.

“Shut the door, lad, it's baltic out there.”
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baltic In A Sentence

Shut the door, lad, it's baltic out there.

Origin & Usage

Liverpool's docks ran a huge Baltic timber trade for centuries — the Baltic Triangle district still wears the name. Sailors back from those runs knew exactly how cold 'baltic' meant.

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