Cool

How cool! No, I’m not uncomfortable with the low temperatures. I’m just excited about exploring a really cool word. This will be cool. Just cool it and read on. The word cool comes from the Old English word, col, and is akin to the Old High German, kuoli. (Websters, 183) Historically, that is, before the Beatniks of the 1950s, the word cool was a general description of something that was somewhat cold in temperature. Not freezing, not frigid, but more cold than hot. A breeze, a patch of shade on a sunny day, or the evening hours of the spring or fall bring to mind the word cool in the classical sense. Cool, in this sense, is an adjective describing the deficiency of warmth. Arctic, biting, chill, chilly, freeze, frigid, frost, glacial, nippy, refrigerated, shivery, snappy, and wintry are all synonyms for cool.
That is too cool. In the 1950s, the Beatniks wer...