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freshie

noun

Etymology

From fresh + -ie. In the sense of an immigrant, shortened from fresh off the boat.

  1. inherited from freshen — “to freshen”
  2. derived from *preysk-✻ — “fresh”
  3. inherited from *friskaz✻ — “fresh”
  4. inherited from *frisk✻ — “fresh”
  5. inherited from fersċ — “fresh, pure, sweet”
  6. inherited from fressh
  7. suffixed as freshie — “fresh + ie”

Definitions

  1. A freshman.

    • You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.

  2. A new immigrant (usually to the UK).

  3. A freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Freshly fallen snow.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA