frosh

English

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.

frosh (plural froshes)

(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.

frog — see frog

frosh (plural froshes or frosh)

(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!
(colloquial, plural "froshes") Short for frosh week.

first year student

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

to initiate academic freshmen

to damage through incompetence

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