noun
pl.Informal a high-school or college freshman
Origin of frosh
altered from freshmanfrosh
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frosh
noun
pl. frosh InformalA freshman, as in college.
Origin of frosh
Shortening and alteration of freshman ( perhaps influenced by German Frosch frog, grammar-school pupil )THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Origin
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
(plural froshes or frosh)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present froshes, present participle froshing, simple past and past participle froshed)
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