Frosh Definition

frŏsh

noun

A high-school or college freshman.

Webster's New World

(dialectal) A frog.

Wiktionary

(colloquial) A first year student, at certain universities.

That frosh is really getting on my nerves, just he wait till hell-week!

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verb

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

This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.

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(slang) To damage through incompetence.

Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.

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Origin of Frosh

From Middle English frosch, from Old English frosc (“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.

From Wiktionary
From an alteration of freshman, under influence from German dialectal Frosch (“grammar-school pupil”, literally “frog”). Related to English frosh above.

From Wiktionary
Shortening and alteration of freshman (perhaps influenced by German Frosch frog, grammar-school pupil)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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