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frosh

noun
/ˈfɹɒʃ/UK/ˈfɹɔʃ//ˈfɹɔʃ/US

Etymology

From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English frosc, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“frog”), Icelandic froskur (“frog”). Doublet of frosk; more at frog.

  1. derived from *prew-✻ — “to jump, hop”
  2. inherited from *fruskaz✻ — “frog”
  3. inherited from frosc
  4. inherited from frossh

Definitions

  1. A frog.

    • 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356

  2. A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at…

    A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.

    • The frosh are really getting on my nerves!

  3. Ellipsis of frosh week.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.

      • This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.

    2. To damage through incompetence.

      • Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.

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Derived

prefrosh, froshing

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for frosh. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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