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Freshie

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A freshman. Philippines, US, colloquial, countable

    "You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles."

  2. 2
    A new immigrant (usually to the UK). UK, colloquial, countable
  3. 3
    A freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni) Australia, colloquial, countable
  4. 4
    Freshly fallen snow. colloquial, uncountable

Etymology

From fresh + -ie. In the sense of an immigrant, shortened from fresh off the boat.

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