frosh

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Pronunciation

• (America)
  • (GA) IPA: /fɹɔʃ/
  • (cot-caught) IPA: /fɹɑʃ/

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.

Noun

frosh (plural froshes)

1. (colloquial) A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.

   That frosh is really getting on my nerves!

Synonyms

• underclassman
• newbie
• fresher (UK)

Translations

• French: bleu

Verb

frosh (froshes, present participle froshing; 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.

Synonyms

• (initiate) haze

Translations

• French: bizuter, baptiser

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