frosh

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /fɹɔʃ/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /fɹɑʃ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɹɒʃ/ Rhymes: -ɔːʃ, -ɒʃ === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Noun ==== frosh (plural froshes) (now dialectal) A frog. 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. (colloquial, plural "froshes") Ellipsis of frosh week. ===== 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. (transitive, slang) To damage through incompetence. ===== Synonyms ===== (initiate): haze ===== Derived terms ===== froshing ===== Translations ===== == Middle English == === Noun === frosh alternative form of frossh