" In Northamptonshire dialect 'to thaw' is 'to ungive.' The beauty of this variant I find hard to articulate, but it surely has to do with the paradox of thaw figured as restraint or retention, and the wintry notion that cold, frost and snow might themselves be a form of gift -- an addition to the landscape that will in time be subtracted by warmth. "

― Robert Macfarlane , Landmarks