different between frosk vs frosh

English

Etymology

From Middle English frosk, from Old English frox, fros? (“frog”) and Old Norse froskr (“frog”); both from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz, *fruþskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Doublet of frosh.

Noun

frosk (plural frosks)

1. (dialectal) A frog.

Anagrams

• Korfs, forks

Icelandic

Noun

frosk

1. indefinite accusative singular of froskur

Middle English

Noun

frosk

1. Alternative form of frossh

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse froskr, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“jump, hop”).

Noun

frosk m (definite singular frosken, indefinite plural frosker, definite plural froskene)

1. a frog (amphibian)

See also

• padde
• rumpetroll

References

• “frosk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse froskr, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“jump, hop”).

Noun

frosk m (definite singular frosken, indefinite plural froskar, definite plural froskane)

1. a frog (amphibian)

See also

• padde
• rumpetroll

References

• “frosk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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)

1. (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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of freshman +? sophomore.

Noun

frosh (plural froshes or frosh)

1. (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)

1. (transitive, slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.

   This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.

2. (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

1. Alternative form of frossh