frosh

Meanings

1. A frog.

1. A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.
2. Ellipsis of frosh week.

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

Etymology

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.