freshern.¹

Brit.

/ˈfrɛʃə/, U.S.

/ˈfrɛʃər/

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: frosh n.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < an alteration of frosh n.¹ (after fresh adj.) + -er suffix¹.Perhaps compare Middle Dutch versch , variant of vorsch frog (see frog n.¹ and adj.).

English regional (East Anglian). Now rare.

A young frog.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > frog > young or little

froglinga1590

fresher1823

froglet1824

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 136 Fresher, a young frog.

1896 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 314 He loved to catch ‘freshers’ and let them hop down his throat.

1906 W. A. Dutt Wild Life E. Anglia x. 165 The guest ate of them with relish, and then asked what kind of birds they were. ‘They are not birds at all; they are 'freshers'’, was the reply, ‘fresher’ being the name locally applied to young frogs.

1979 M. Ferguson Horse-witch in www.suffolkpoetrysociety.org (accessed 25 Sept. 2020) As a Suffolk horse-witch..instead of taming this dark loam His skill with a dried fresher's back-bone Worked a different gardening.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

freshern.²

Brit.

/ˈfrɛʃə/, U.S.

/ˈfrɛʃər/, Irish English

/ˈfrɛʃər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fresh adj., -er suffix⁶.

Etymology: < fresh adj. + -er suffix⁶.In sense 1 after freshman n. 2a; compare earlier freshie n. 1a.

1. Chiefly British and Irish English. Originally University slang. A student in his or her first year at a university or college. Cf. freshman n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student

puny1548

freshman1583

puisne1592

freshwomana1627

bejan1642

nib1655

jib1827

greeny1834

fox1839

freshie1845

rat1850

buttery Benjie1854

pennal1854

yellow-beak1865

fresher1875

yellow-neb1879

yearling1908

frosh1915

1875 Uppingham School Mag. Sept. 198 At Oxford,..nothing so astonishes the philosophical observer as the extraordinary way the wily waterman draws on the unwary Fresher.

1877 Oxf. & Cambr. Undergraduate's Jrnl. 22 Nov. 123/1 Three Freshers went tubbing away to the Plough,..all in Cap and Gown.

1882 Society 14 Oct. 4/2 The entry of freshers is about two hundred under the average.

1891 S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in London 254 According to the pure usage of Oxonian English, he was a ‘Fresher’.

1968 P. Larkin Let. 4 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 405 Tomorrow I have to address the freshers..and feel as usual scared of it.

2014 @ChesterRugby 3 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 17 Feb 2020) Great day recruiting freshers for the team!

†2. A fresh breeze. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > fresh wind

fresh breeze1806

fresher1894

1894 Field 9 June 836/2 The Britannia took in her flying jib, a fresher from off St. Mary's Marshes laying on until the Prince of Wales's cutter was fairly foaming.

3. Indian English. An employee with only a limited amount of work experience; a recent graduate entering employment.

ΚΠ

1986 R. D. Lambert et al. Transformation Indian Labor Market iv. 119 Workers in the new market were younger and more likely still to be single. These are the same qualities..that distinguished the freshers from those who had already had some employment experience.

2005 India Today (Nexis) 7 Mar. 30 Their lack of experience is no longer an issue because almost all sunrise sectors provide extensive training to freshers.

2020 @RahulVaasu 26 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 24 Sept. 2020) We just hired a fresher from college, 2nd working day WFH announced, now the boss going nuts over what is he working on.

Compounds

freshers' fair n. (also fresher's fair, freshers fair) chiefly British and Irish English an event at a university or college, typically held during the week prior to the start of the academic year, at which student societies are advertised to new students.

ΚΠ

1963 Liverpool Echo 27 Sept. 28/4 To-day new students toured the University precinct... To-morrow they will take part in the Fresher's Fair when they get a chance of seeing the activities of the various University Societies.

1996 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Dec. 3 Katie made the local paper's front page when she was ejected forcibly from the fresher's fair at Derby University, after trying to set up a SPUC stand.

2010 S. Fry Fry Chrons. 72 University life begins with the Freshers' Fair and all kinds of ‘squashes’—recruitment parties thrown by student clubs and societies.

freshers' flu n. (also fresher's flu, freshers flu) British (an informal name for) flu-like illness common in new university or college students during the first weeks of the academic year, typically attributed to an excess of alcohol, a lack of sleep, and exposure to new germs, viruses, etc., through contact with other students.

ΚΠ

1997 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 31 Jan. 18/2 Faqir is suffering from ‘what we at Durham call fresher's flu’.

2012 Guardian 12 Sept. (G2 section) 12/2 Freshers' flu is actually a collection of symptoms: sore throat, headache, cough, fever and tiredness.

freshers' week n. (also fresher's week, freshers week) chiefly British and Irish English the week prior to the start of a university or college's academic year, when events are held to welcome and entertain new students.

ΚΠ

1930 Smith's Weekly (Sydney) 29 Mar. 7/2 All last week the papers teemed with references to ‘Freshers' Week’.

2015 Church Times 25 Sept. 29/1 This month, about half of all 18-year-olds in England will have arrived at their universities' freshers' week.

Derivatives

ˈfresherdom n. the condition or state of being a fresher.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student > condition of

freshmanship1607

freshhood1836

freshmanhood1837

fresherdom1888

1888 Boy's Own Paper 22 Sept. 831 Fresherdom. This is the preliminary stage of University life which the freshman enters on directly he comes into residence.

1895 19th Cent. Nov. 363 Emergence from the condition of ‘fresherdom’.

2009 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 27 Sept. 29 All the fun of fresherdom awaits the princess who started her first term at Newcastle University on Thursday.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fresher
释义	freshern.¹ Brit. /ˈfrɛʃə/, U.S. /ˈfrɛʃər/ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: frosh n.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < an alteration of frosh n.¹ (after fresh adj.) + -er suffix¹.Perhaps compare Middle Dutch versch , variant of vorsch frog (see frog n.¹ and adj.). English regional (East Anglian). Now rare. A young frog. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > frog > young or little froglinga1590 fresher1823 froglet1824 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 136 Fresher, a young frog. 1896 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 314 He loved to catch ‘freshers’ and let them hop down his throat. 1906 W. A. Dutt Wild Life E. Anglia x. 165 The guest ate of them with relish, and then asked what kind of birds they were. ‘They are not birds at all; they are 'freshers'’, was the reply, ‘fresher’ being the name locally applied to young frogs. 1979 M. Ferguson Horse-witch in www.suffolkpoetrysociety.org (accessed 25 Sept. 2020) As a Suffolk horse-witch..instead of taming this dark loam His skill with a dried fresher's back-bone Worked a different gardening. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). freshern.² Brit. /ˈfrɛʃə/, U.S. /ˈfrɛʃər/, Irish English /ˈfrɛʃər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fresh adj., -er suffix⁶. Etymology: < fresh adj. + -er suffix⁶.In sense 1 after freshman n. 2a; compare earlier freshie n. 1a. 1. Chiefly British and Irish English. Originally University slang. A student in his or her first year at a university or college. Cf. freshman n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student puny1548 freshman1583 puisne1592 freshwomana1627 bejan1642 nib1655 jib1827 greeny1834 fox1839 freshie1845 rat1850 buttery Benjie1854 pennal1854 yellow-beak1865 fresher1875 yellow-neb1879 yearling1908 frosh1915 1875 Uppingham School Mag. Sept. 198 At Oxford,..nothing so astonishes the philosophical observer as the extraordinary way the wily waterman draws on the unwary Fresher. 1877 Oxf. & Cambr. Undergraduate's Jrnl. 22 Nov. 123/1 Three Freshers went tubbing away to the Plough,..all in Cap and Gown. 1882 Society 14 Oct. 4/2 The entry of freshers is about two hundred under the average. 1891 S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in London 254 According to the pure usage of Oxonian English, he was a ‘Fresher’. 1968 P. Larkin Let. 4 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 405 Tomorrow I have to address the freshers..and feel as usual scared of it. 2014 @ChesterRugby 3 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 17 Feb 2020) Great day recruiting freshers for the team! †2. A fresh breeze. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > fresh wind fresh breeze1806 fresher1894 1894 Field 9 June 836/2 The Britannia took in her flying jib, a fresher from off St. Mary's Marshes laying on until the Prince of Wales's cutter was fairly foaming. 3. Indian English. An employee with only a limited amount of work experience; a recent graduate entering employment. ΚΠ 1986 R. D. Lambert et al. Transformation Indian Labor Market iv. 119 Workers in the new market were younger and more likely still to be single. These are the same qualities..that distinguished the freshers from those who had already had some employment experience. 2005 India Today (Nexis) 7 Mar. 30 Their lack of experience is no longer an issue because almost all sunrise sectors provide extensive training to freshers. 2020 @RahulVaasu 26 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 24 Sept. 2020) We just hired a fresher from college, 2nd working day WFH announced, now the boss going nuts over what is he working on. Compounds freshers' fair n. (also fresher's fair, freshers fair) chiefly British and Irish English an event at a university or college, typically held during the week prior to the start of the academic year, at which student societies are advertised to new students. ΚΠ 1963 Liverpool Echo 27 Sept. 28/4 To-day new students toured the University precinct... To-morrow they will take part in the Fresher's Fair when they get a chance of seeing the activities of the various University Societies. 1996 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Dec. 3 Katie made the local paper's front page when she was ejected forcibly from the fresher's fair at Derby University, after trying to set up a SPUC stand. 2010 S. Fry Fry Chrons. 72 University life begins with the Freshers' Fair and all kinds of ‘squashes’—recruitment parties thrown by student clubs and societies. freshers' flu n. (also fresher's flu, freshers flu) British (an informal name for) flu-like illness common in new university or college students during the first weeks of the academic year, typically attributed to an excess of alcohol, a lack of sleep, and exposure to new germs, viruses, etc., through contact with other students. ΚΠ 1997 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 31 Jan. 18/2 Faqir is suffering from ‘what we at Durham call fresher's flu’. 2012 Guardian 12 Sept. (G2 section) 12/2 Freshers' flu is actually a collection of symptoms: sore throat, headache, cough, fever and tiredness. freshers' week n. (also fresher's week, freshers week) chiefly British and Irish English the week prior to the start of a university or college's academic year, when events are held to welcome and entertain new students. ΚΠ 1930 Smith's Weekly (Sydney) 29 Mar. 7/2 All last week the papers teemed with references to ‘Freshers' Week’. 2015 Church Times 25 Sept. 29/1 This month, about half of all 18-year-olds in England will have arrived at their universities' freshers' week. Derivatives ˈfresherdom n. the condition or state of being a fresher. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student > condition of freshmanship1607 freshhood1836 freshmanhood1837 fresherdom1888 1888 Boy's Own Paper 22 Sept. 831 Fresherdom. This is the preliminary stage of University life which the freshman enters on directly he comes into residence. 1895 19th Cent. Nov. 363 Emergence from the condition of ‘fresherdom’. 2009 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 27 Sept. 29 All the fun of fresherdom awaits the princess who started her first term at Newcastle University on Thursday. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1823n.²1875
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