/fɹɛʃ/
OriginFrom 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.
- Newly produced or obtained; recent.
“He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.”
“I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.”
“With his recent divorce still fresh in his mind, he was unable to concentrate on his work.”
- 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.”
“I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.”
“a glass of fresh milk”
- 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 desirabl”
- Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
“What a nice fresh breeze.”
“The corridor stinks of sweat and cigarette smoke, and I daringly open the window a little. The freshest air floats in, smelling of sappy grasses, the delicate pollens of wild flowers, the resins of th”
- Of water, without salt; not saline.
“After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.”
“There we made our ſhip faſt with foure ropes, in ſmooth water, and the freſh water ranne downe out of the hill into the ſea, […]”
“When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh, and sometimes saltish; […]”
- 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.”
- In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
- Youthful; florid.
- slangGood, fashionable.
“a fresh pair of sneakers”
“I've been thinking about the way you walk
Baby ooh I like the way you talk
Tell you something I really can't hide
Heaven must have sent you to be by my side
Fresh and lovely fresh like a dream com”
“Because my devastating beats I know you will like / You see my beat box is fresh, it'll blow your mind”
- archaic, slangTipsy; drunk.
“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.”
- idiomaticRude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
“No one liked his fresh comments.”
- idiomaticSexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
“Hey, don't get fresh with me!”
““Fresh guy,” explained Aileen, “last night as I was going home at Twenty-third and Sixth. Sashayed up, so he did, and made a break. I turned him down, cold, and he made a sneak; […]”
“… He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying^([sic]) right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …”
- not-comparableRecently; just recently; most recently.
“We are fresh out of milk.”
“Hell of a surprise in the seventh season premiere of Game Of Thrones. Arya Stark, fresh off a nigh Cersei-level ambush of the Frey household, comes upon a small campfire surrounded by fresh-faced red ”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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 th”
- 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.”
“Aided by government propaganda, herring became an important British war-time food, not pickled, but 'freshed' (packed loosely in ice) and kippered.”
“Smoked abalone is prepared by smoking the salted and freshed abalone, the smoked meat is packed with vegetable oil.”
- 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.”
“Under the present river conditions, headwater discharge of 40,000 cusecs will be necessary during the non-freshed season to neutralise the landward drift of sediments throughout the tidal portion of t”
“But as the golden light flowed slowly across the Discworld like the first freshing of the tide over mudflats the eagle circled higher into the dome of heaven, beating the air down with slow and powerf”
- To become stronger.
“Horrible was now my condition, as the wind freshed up more and more.”
“I should have observed, that as we rounded the north-east point, the breeze freshed, and the squalls came heavy out of the gullies and deep ravines.”
“On the afternoon of the 20th, at the period the storm was very severe to the south-west of her, the Barlow experienced calms and variable winds. By noon on the 21st, the wind freshed, with the weather”
- 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."”
“There is also the oft-heard plaint that "modern steel barrels can't be re-rifled or freshed out."”
- 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 Cald”
“We need not assume that the famous village was considered the capital of the country spoken of; it is sufficient to know that the priests who freshed up the old Ta-ts'in lore in China, were proud of h”
“The strongest judgment against the Toledot Yeshu was made by Solomon Schechter in 1898, "All the so-called Anti-Christiana collected by medieval [Jewish] fanatics, and freshed up again by modern ignor”
- To freshen up.
“I freshed meself and followed after him and made choice of me dinner.”
“There was no need for them all to be there—most would be resting in their rooms, freshing from the journey—but she was on edge now, all the questions she could not ask running through her head.”
“We played and adored our boys, we watched a little television until about six, I got a shower and put my clothes back on I got the boys freshed up while Aj was in the shower and he got dressed.”
- 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.”
“In the nook of a wood where a pool freshed with dew Glassed, daybreak till evening, blue sky glimpsing through Then a star; or a slip of May-moon silver-white, Thridding softly aloof the quiet of nigh”
“About a month later, the blaze is freshed by cutting off a thin shaving of bark all round the stem, over half the depth of the old blaze and taking in 2 inches of new bark on the upper edge of the ori”
- 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.”
“Fall Freshed Cows Produce More Milk.”
“On the day of my visit, Mary greets me at my car with a delighted look on her face. “You're just in time!” she says eagerly. “A cow has just 'freshed'!””
Formsfresher(comparative) · freshest(superlative) · freshes(plural) · freshes(present, singular, third-person) · freshing(participle, present) · freshed(participle, past) · freshed(past) · Freshes(plural)