frosh

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɹɒʃ/|[ˈfɹʷɒ̟ʃ]    美 /ˈfɹɔʃ/|[ˈfɹʷɔ̟ʃ]|/ˈfɹɔʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A frog. dialectal
    — 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356
  2. A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities. colloquial
    — The frosh are really getting on my nerves!
  3. Ellipsis of frosh week. abbreviation,alt-of,colloquial,ellipsis
动词 v.
  1. To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way. slang,transitive
    — This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
  2. To damage through incompetence. slang,transitive
    — Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.

词形变化

froshes plural froshes plural frosh plural froshes present,singular,third-person froshing participle,present froshed participle,past froshed past

词汇关系

近义词
underclassman newbie fresher
衍生词
prefrosh froshing

词源

词源 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.
词源 2
Blend of freshman + sophomore.
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