freshie
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Etymology edit
fresh + -ie. In the sense of an immigrant, shortened from fresh off the boat.
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Noun edit
freshie (countable and uncountable, plural freshies)
- (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.
- (countable, colloquial, UK) A new immigrant (usually to the UK).
- (countable, colloquial, Australia) A freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)
- (uncountable, colloquial, skiing) Freshly fallen snow.
Synonyms edit
- (freshman): fresher, frosh
- (new immigrant): comeling, FOB, greener, newling; see also Thesaurus:newcomer