fresh

Значение (Английский)

Adj

1. Newly produced or obtained; recent.
2. Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
3. Still green and not dried.
4. Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
5. Without salt; not saline.
6. Rested; not tired or fatigued.
7. In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
8. Youthful; florid.
9. (slang) Good, fashionable.
10. (slang) Tipsy; drunk.

Adv

recently; just recently; most recently

Noun

1. A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
2. A stream or spring of fresh water.
3. 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.

Verb

1. To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
2. To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
3. To become stronger.
4. To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
5. To update.
6. To freshen up.
7. To renew.
8. to give birth to a calf.

Произносится как (IPA)

/fɹɛʃ/

Этимология (Английский)

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.