frosh

English

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

frosh (plural froshes)

  1. (now dialectal) A frog.
    • 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:
      The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise.
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

frosh (plural froshes or frosh)

  1. (colloquial) A first-year student, at certain universities.
    That frosh is really getting on my nerves!
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Verb

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

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