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Soph, formerly
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frosh
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
student colloquial shortening and alteration of freshman , attested from 1908, "perh. under influence of German frosch frog, (dial.) grammar-school pupil" [OED].
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
frosh \frosh\, n.; pl. frosh . [from freshman by shortening.] a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university; a freshman . [informal]
Usage examples of frosh.
Three hundred fellow frosh, gulping down breakfast lattes and Cokes from the student center, grumbling at the early hour.
And there went whole schools of identical frosh, carried along on the whims of the tide.
He also worked occasionally on an autobiographical screenplay called “The Frosh,” which chronicled his days as a freshman at Brockport.
But Mary was thirty-nine now—her birthday had come and gone, unremarked by anyone—and frosh at York were as young as eighteen.