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freshie

freshie noun: a freshman.

Noun

freshie (countable and uncountable, plural freshies)

  1. (Philippines, US, colloquial, countable) A freshman.
    • You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64
    Synonyms:
    fresher, frosh
  2. (UK, colloquial, countable) A new immigrant (usually to the UK).
    Synonyms:
    comeling
  3. (Australia, colloquial, countable) A freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)
  4. (colloquial, uncountable) Freshly fallen snow.

Synonyms of freshie

Forms of freshie

pluralfreshies
alternative formfreshy

Origin of freshie

From fresh + -ie. In the sense of an immigrant, shortened from fresh off the boat.

Questions about freshie

What does freshie mean?
Freshie means a freshman.
What part of speech is freshie?
Freshie is a noun.
What is the plural of freshie?
The plural of freshie is freshies.

Words near freshie in the dictionary

  1. freshets
  2. freshety
  3. freshfaced
  4. Freshfield
  5. Freshford
  6. freshie
  7. freshies
  8. freshing
  9. freshing up
  10. freshish
  11. freshlier

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