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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
frosh (plural froshes)
- (now dialectal) A frog.
- 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:
The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise.
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Etymology 2
Blend of freshman + sophomore.
Noun
frosh (plural froshes or frosh)
- (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!
- (colloquial, plural "froshes") Ellipsis of frosh week.
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Verb
frosh (third-person singular simple present froshes, present participle froshing, simple past and past participle froshed)
- (transitive, slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
- (transitive, slang) To damage through incompetence.
Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
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to initiate academic freshmen
to damage through incompetence
Middle English
Noun
frosh
- alternative form of frossh