单词 | freshie |
释义 | freshien. 1. a. Originally North American. A first-year student at a university, college, or high school. Also in extended use: a newcomer or novice. Cf. freshman n.In quot. 1845 as a generic name for a university freshman. 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 1845 Alexandria (Virginia) Gaz. 13 Nov. Five of them visited the room of a young Freshman... Freshy very coolly rose, walked out of the door, turned the key, and left. 1859 Kenyon Collegian (Ohio) Oct. 28 Soph's and prospective Freshies court the embraces of the ‘drowsy god’. 1907 Washington Star 30 Sept. 3 Seniors, Juniors, sophs and freshies think he's a dandy prexy. 1992 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 5 Aug. 22 The graduate nurse who is still a ‘freshie’ cannot match those already practising. 2019 Manila Bull. (Nexis) 22 June It means a lot to me to have my whole family at my graduation day as it has been my dream since I was a freshie. b. slang (chiefly depreciative). A recent immigrant; esp. one who stands out as such due to his or her speech, clothing, behaviour, etc. Cf. fresh off the boat. ΚΠ 1989 Toronto Star 13 June (Metro ed.) (Life section) 4/3 ‘The freshies’ is a term they use to describe..those ‘fresh off the boat from Jamaica’. 1995 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 17 Apr. Kightley and..Small's comedy is about Uncle Charles (a ‘freshie’ from Samoa) and his urbanised and kiwi-ised sister. 2011 S. Sahota Ours are Streets 53 He sounded like a freshie, his w's sounding like v's and the rest. 2. Australian. colloquial. A freshwater crocodile, Crocodylus johnstoni, native to northern Australia. ΚΠ 1951 J. Devanny Trav. N. Queensland ii. xv. 204 Further, both Walker and Norman Smith ‘took their oath’ that they had once captured a ‘freshie’ that went to eleven feet! 1970 D. Baird Incredible Gulf 96 Joh Dimmock..is discussing the crocodile situation. ‘I got forty-three freshies last week. They're there if you know where to look.’ 2019 @kaimatai 19 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 17 July 2020) Actually..I do like crocodiles. You'll probably be ok if you swim with the freshies. 3. In plural. In skiing and snowboarding: the first tracks down a slope covered in freshly fallen snow; (also) freshly fallen, untouched snow. ΚΠ 1989 Skiing Nov. 229/2 Tree skiing allows you to ski fresh tracks—‘freshies’, as we call them. 2019 @SteamboatUSA 28 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 14 Jan. 2020) We've had twenty inches of snow in the past fourteen days with six inches of freshies coming last night. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1845 |
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