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frosh

UK/ˈfɹɒʃ/

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Australia/ˈfɹɔʃ/

frosh noun: a frog. Also the ellipsis of frosh week.

Noun (1)

frosh (plural froshes)

  1. (dialectal) A frog.
    • 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356

Noun (2)

frosh (plural froshes or frosh)

  1. (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!

Verb

frosh (third-person singular simple present froshes, present participle froshing, simple past and past participle froshed)

  1. (slang, transitive) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
    • This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
    Synonyms:
    haze
  2. (slang, transitive) To damage through incompetence.
    • Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.

Also used as

frosh is also the ellipsis of frosh week.

Synonyms of frosh

Forms of frosh

Noun
pluralfroshes
pluralfrosh
Verb
third-person singular presentfroshes
present participlefroshing
past participlefroshed
pastfroshed

Origin of frosh

From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English frosc, 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”). Doublet of frosk; more at frog.

Blend of freshman + sophomore.

Words formed from frosh

Phrases with frosh

Words that rhyme with frosh

Questions about frosh

What does frosh mean?
Frosh means a frog.
What part of speech is frosh?
Frosh can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce frosh?
Frosh is pronounced /ˈfɹɒʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of frosh?
The plural of frosh is froshes.

Words near frosh in the dictionary

  1. frorn
  2. frory
  3. fros
  4. Frosdick
  5. frosemide
  6. frosh
  7. frosh week
  8. frosh weeks
  9. Froshaug
  10. froshed
  11. froshes

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