frosh

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

froshesfrosh

1.
(dialectal)(now dialectal) A frog.
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.

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verb

V_es/s

froshes

V_ing/Gerund

froshing

V_ed/pp

froshed

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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Đồng nghĩa

freshernewbieunderclassman haze

Cùng gốc / liên quan

prefrosh

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English frosc, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (frog), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (to jump, hop). Cognate with froask, vors, Frosch, frosk, froskur. frosk; more at frog.