fresh

Meanings

Adjective

• Newly produced or obtained; recent.
• Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.
• Still green and not dried.
• Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
• Without salt; not saline.
• Rested; not tired or fatigued.
• In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
• Youthful; florid.
• Good, fashionable.
• Tipsy; drunk.
• Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
• Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.

Adverb

• recently; just recently; most recently

Noun

• A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
• A stream or spring of fresh water.
• The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

Verb

• To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
• To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
• To become stronger.
• To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
• To update.
• To freshen up.
• To renew.
• to give birth to a calf.

Origin

• From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersc, from Proto-West Germanic *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk-.
• Cognate with Scots fresch, West Frisian farsk, Dutch vers, Walloon frexh, German frisch, French frais, Norwegian and Danish frisk, fersk, Icelandic ferskur, Lithuanian prėskas, Russian пре́сный. fresco.
• Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.{{cite-book
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• |title=The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2nd ed.
• |editors=Tom Dalzell; Terry Victor
• |publisher=Routledge
• |page=914
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• |year=1982
• |title=Can I Get A Soul Clapp
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• 1848, US slang, probably from German frech, from Middle High German vrech, from Old High German freh, from Proto-Germanic *frekaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pereg-. Cognate with Old English frec and Danish fræk. More at freak.