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frosh

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈfɹɒʃ/
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/ˈfɹɒʃ/ · [ˈfɹʷɒ̟ʃ] · /ˈfɹɔʃ/ · [ˈfɹʷɔ̟ʃ] · /ˈfɹɑʃ/ · [ˈfɹʷɑʃ] · [ˈfɹʰɒʃ]

Definition of frosh

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (dialectal)A frog.
    “1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356”
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noun

  1. (dialectal)A frog.
    “1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356”
  2. (colloquial)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. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis)Ellipsis of frosh week.

verb

  1. (slang, transitive)To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
    “This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.”
  2. (slang, transitive)To damage through incompetence.
    “Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.”

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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.

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