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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
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froth
English
Etymology
From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþ?; Old English ?fr?oþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f???/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f???/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /f???/
- Rhymes: -??, Rhymes: -???
Noun
froth (countable and uncountable, plural froths)
- foam
- (figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel
- Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
froth (third-person singular simple present froths, present participle frothing, simple past and past participle frothed)
- (transitive) To create froth in (a liquid).
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book Two, Chapter 7, [1]
- One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out.
- I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book Two, Chapter 7, [1]
- (intransitive) (of a liquid) To bubble.
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” lines 21-4, [2]
- Colder and louder blew the wind,
- A gale from the Northeast,
- The snow fell hissing in the brine,
- And the billows frothed like yeast.
- 1973, “Black Day in Brussels,” Time, 19 February, 1973, [3]
- English beer, along with European brews, is already the subject of an EEC investigation to determine whether additives like stabilizers (used to prevent frothing during shipment) should be allowed.
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” lines 21-4, [2]
- (transitive) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
- 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, a Tragedy, Act I, Scene 1, [4]
- The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek.
- He frets within, froths treason at his mouth,
- And churns it thro’ his teeth […]
- 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Merlin and Vivien” in Idylls of the King, [5]
- […] is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
- 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, a Tragedy, Act I, Scene 1, [4]
- (intransitive) (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
- 1958, Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938), translated by Kimon Friar, London: Secker and Warburg, Book XIII,
- The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws,
- opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone.
- 1962, “Riding Crime's Crest” in Time, 25 April, 1962, [6]
- As doctors tried in vain to save April's right eye, news stories frothed at her assailant. He was “fiendish” (the Examiner), “sadistic” (the News-Call Bulletin), “probably a sexual psychopath” (the Chronicle).
- 1958, Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938), translated by Kimon Friar, London: Secker and Warburg, Book XIII,
- (transitive) To cover with froth.
- A horse froths his chain.
Translations
Derived terms
- frothy
- froth at the mouth
- froth up
References
Anagrams
- Forth, forth, forth-
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