frosh

Meanings

Noun

• A frog.
• A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.

Verb

• To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
• To damage through incompetence.

Related

Similar words

• underclassman
• newbie
• fresher
• haze

Origin

• From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English frosċ, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *prew-. Cognate with West Frisian froask, Dutch vors, German Frosch, Norwegian frosk, Icelandic froskur. See also frosk, frog.