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frosh
English
Pronunciation
- (US)
- (General American) IPA(key): /f???/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /f???/
Etymology 1
From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English fros? (“frog”), 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”). See also frosk, 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.
- 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:
Translations
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.
- That frosh is really getting on my nerves!
Synonyms
- underclassman
- newbie
- fresher (UK)
Derived terms
- prefrosh
Translations
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.
Synonyms
- (initiate): haze
Derived terms
- froshing
Translations
Middle English
Noun
frosh
- Alternative form of frossh
frosh From the web:
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fros
English
Noun
fros
- plural of fro
Anagrams
- ORFs, SFor, orfs, sORF
Galician
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f??s/
Noun
fros m (plural froses)
- load, baggage
- shoulder
- (usually in the plural) tools of the trade
References
- “fros” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “fros” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Malay
Noun
fros
- frost
fros From the web:
- what frosting goes with lemon cake
- what frosting goes with red velvet cake
- what frosting goes best with chocolate cake
- what frosting goes on carrot cake
- what frosting goes on german chocolate cake
- what frosting goes with strawberry cake
- what frosting goes with vanilla cake
- what frosting goes with spice cake
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