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frosh¹

  • /ˈfɹɒʃ/ UK
  • [ˈfɹʷɒ̟ʃ] UK
  • /ˈfɹɔʃ/ Australia
  • [ˈfɹʷɔ̟ʃ] Australia
  • /ˈfɹɔʃ/ US
  • /ˈfɹɑʃ/ cot caught merger
  • [ˈfɹʷɑʃ] cot caught merger
  • /ˈfɹɒʃ/ cot caught merger
  • [ˈfɹʰɒʃ] cot caught merger

Rhymes with -ɔːʃ, -ɒʃ

Where it comes from

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.

noun froshes

  1. dialectal A frog. 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356

frosh²

  • /ˈfɹɒʃ/ UK
  • [ˈfɹʷɒ̟ʃ] UK
  • /ˈfɹɔʃ/ Australia
  • [ˈfɹʷɔ̟ʃ] Australia
  • /ˈfɹɔʃ/ US
  • /ˈfɹɑʃ/ cot caught merger
  • [ˈfɹʷɑʃ] cot caught merger
  • /ˈfɹɒʃ/ cot caught merger
  • [ˈfɹʰɒʃ] cot caught merger

Rhymes with -ɔːʃ, -ɒʃ

Where it comes from

Blend of freshman + sophomore.

noun froshes · frosh

  1. 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!
  2. abbreviation, colloquial, ellipsis Ellipsis of frosh week

Similar: underclassman, newbie, fresher

verb froshes · froshing · froshed

  1. slang, transitive To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way. This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.

    Similar: haze

  2. slang, transitive To damage through incompetence. Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.

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noun

Similar: underclassman, newbie, fresher

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noun first year student

Françaisbleu

verb to initiate academic freshmen

Françaisbizuter, baptiser

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@misc{frosh_2026,
  title = {frosh},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/frosh},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}