Can't take full credit on this one, as it popped up last week as a word of the day, but it is so fitting for this time of year and it sounds like something one would make up: frigorific


Coming down that descent was friggin' frigorific!

btw rode in shorts and short sleeves today, high was in the 70's. Payback for suffering through south Louisiana summer.


frigorific
\ frig-uh-RIF-ik \ , adjective;
1. causing or producing cold.


Quotes:
When the fog reached the spot where the observer stood, it was found to be devoid of smell, but its influence was decidedly frigorific .
-- R. Angus Smith, "A Curious Fog," Popular Science Monthly , August, 1875
It may, indeed, happen that knowledge and virtue remain too long congealed by this frigorific power, as the principles of vegetation are sometimes obstructed by lingering frosts.
-- Samuel Johnson, The Rambler , September 24, 1751
Origin:
Frigorific is derived from the Latin word frīgus meaning "cold" with the last element -fic coming from the verb facere , "make, do." It entered English in the mid-1600s.