fresh

Meaning

Synonyms

newly arrived

refreshful

new one

be green

new-made

just made

young and vivacious

cool breeze

newly made

be fresh

be inexperienced

undue familiarity

fast-breaking

not fatigued

not standing over-night

with fresh spirit

perked up

sweet-flavored

not preserved

not salted

not stale

fresh shot

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/fɹɛʃ/
Etymology

From 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”). 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.

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