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Fresh

//fɹɛʃ// adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
Newly produced or obtained; recent.
"He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer."
2
Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward. idiomatic
"No one liked his fresh comments."
3
Of food, not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
"After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat."
4
Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious. idiomatic
"Hey, don't get fresh with me!"
5
Of plant material, still green and not dried.
"With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]"

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Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
"What a nice fresh breeze."
7
Of water, without salt; not saline.
"After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream."
8
Rested; not tired or fatigued.
"Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements."
9
In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
"a fresh hand on a ship"
10
Youthful; florid.
"these fresh nymphs"
11
Good, fashionable. slang
"a fresh pair of sneakers"
12
Tipsy; drunk. archaic, slang
"How long did Mr. Crisp stay with you?—He might have stayed two hours; he stayed some time after; he drank ale and got fresh."

Adjective

1
improperly forward or bold wordnet
2
not yet used or soiled wordnet
3
recently made, produced, or harvested wordnet
4
not canned or otherwise preserved wordnet
5
not containing or composed of salt water wordnet

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imparting vitality and energy wordnet
7
(of a cycle) beginning or occurring again wordnet
8
original and of a kind not seen before wordnet
9
free from impurities wordnet
10
not soured or preserved wordnet
11
with restored energy wordnet
12
having recently calved and therefore able to give milk wordnet

Adverb

1
Recently; just recently; most recently. not-comparable
"We are fresh out of milk."

Adverb

1
very recently wordnet

Proper Noun

1
A surname from German.

Noun

1
A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
"They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel."
2
A stream or spring of fresh water.
"[…]And take his bottle from him. / When that's gone, / He shall drink naught but brine, for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are."
3
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.
"When they cross any great Water, or violent Fresh, or Torrent, they throw Tobacco, Puccoon, Peak, or some other valuable thing, that they happen to have about there, to intreat the Spirit presiding there, to grant them a safe passage. It is call'd a Fresh, when after very great Rains, or (as we suppose) after a great Thaw of the Snow and Ice lying upon the Mountains Page 43 to the North West, the Water descends, in such abundance into the Rivers, that they overflow the Banks which bound their Streams at other times."

Verb

1
To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
"With the exception of about 1800 crans which were "rough packed," all the herrings landed during the winter months were freshed and kippered."
2
To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
"Our first assumption was that freshed sea water areas were favourable for these organisms."
3
To become stronger.
"Horrible was now my condition, as the wind freshed up more and more."
4
To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
"When the barrel became very rough the gun was taken to the local gunsmith and "freshed.""
5
To update.
"Thus the liberties of the nation, civil and religious, were laid freshed by his preaching, and. more and more confirmed in the presbyterian principles: and we likewise resorted for a time at West Calder kirk, to Mr. Patrick Shiels, by whose preaching I was yet more confirmed in the presbyterian way."

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To freshen up.
"I freshed meself and followed after him and made choice of me dinner."
7
To renew.
"Q. Did you tell anybody this tale that you heard this man threaten what they were going to do?—A. No, sir; I didn't say nothing to anybody until Monday—Monday or Tuesday, one—then my mind was freshed."
8
Of a dairy cow, to give birth to a calf.
"A cow was actually tested twice a month on the 5th and 25th of each month. The cow freshed December 15, her milk was good December 18, and she went dry October 30."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective. Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Norwegian and Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk. Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.

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Etymology 5

First use appears c. 1848, US slang, probably from German frech (“impudent, cheeky, insolent”), from Middle High German vrech (“bold, brave, lively”), from Old High German freh (“greedy, eager, avaricious, covetous”), from Proto-West Germanic *frek, from Proto-Germanic *frekaz (“greedy, outrageous, courageous, capable, active”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“to be quick, twitch, sprinkle, splash”). Cognate with Old English frec (“greedy; eager, bold, daring; dangerous”) and Danish fræk (“naughty”). More at freak.

Etymology 6

Possibly an Americanized form of German Frisch.

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