freshie

English

Alternative forms

• freshy

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

freshie (countable and uncountable, plural freshies)

1. (countable, colloquial, US, Philippines) A freshman.
   • 1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:

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

Synonyms

• (freshman): fresher, frosh
• (new immigrant): comeling, FOB, greener, newling; see also Thesaurus:newcomer

See also

• freshies

Anagrams

• freeish, heifers