fresh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: freshes
form: freshing
form: freshed
form: freshed
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”). 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.
Senses: examples: text: With the exception of about 1800 crans which were "rough packed," all the herrings landed during the winter months were freshed and kippered.
ref: 1921, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report - Volume 12:
text: Aided by government propaganda, herring became an important British war-time food, not pickled, but 'freshed' (packed loosely in ice) and kippered.
ref: 1960, Nigel Nicolson, Lord of the Isles: Lord Leverhulme of the Hebrides, page 84:
text: Smoked abalone is prepared by smoking the salted and freshed abalone, the smoked meat is packed with vegetable oil.
ref: 1971, Eiichi Tanikawa, Marine Products in Japan: Size, Technology and Research, page 189:
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glosses: To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
examples: text: Our first assumption was that freshed sea water areas were favourable for these organisms.
ref: 1974, Bilješke - Volumes 31-76, page 1:
text: 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 the river.
ref: 1977, India. Parliament. House of the People, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha Debates, page 226:
text: 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 powerful wingbeats.
ref: 1987, Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites, →ISBN, page 69:
text: The salinity is variated, and locally the lake water is freshed in a step manner.
ref: 1989, Tseng-chʻüan Li, Fa-erh Chiang, Shu Sun, Developments in geoscience, page 325:
glosses: To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
examples: text: Horrible was now my condition, as the wind freshed up more and more.
ref: 1815, William Williams, The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, a Seaman:
text: 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.
ref: 1834, Frederick Marryat, The naval officer, page 259:
text: 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 cloudy.
ref: 1850, William Reid, An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms by Means of Facts:
glosses: To become stronger.
raw_tags: of wind
examples: text: When the barrel became very rough the gun was taken to the local gunsmith and "freshed."
ref: 1910, Hunter-trader-trapper - Volume 19, Issue 6, page 92:
text: There is also the oft-heard plaint that "modern steel barrels can't be re-rifled or freshed out."
ref: 1974, George C. Nonte, Home guide to muzzle-loaders, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
examples: text: 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 Calder kirk, to Mr. Patrick Shiels, by whose preaching I was yet more confirmed in the presbyterian way.
ref: 1822, Alexander Reid, Life of ―, a scotish govenanter, page 7:
text: 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 having been themselves born in the Holy Land; and if we consider the precedent set in the very T'ang-shu, where the whole of India is designated by the name of Buddha's birth place, Magadha, we need not be astonished to see the name of what they must have considered the spiritual capital of the Christian world applied to the country they came from.
ref: 1885, Chinese Recorder - Volume 16, page 419:
text: 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 ignoramuses, belong to the later centuries, when history and biography had already given way to myth and speculation."
ref: 2000, Robert Van Voorst, Craig A. Evans, Bruce Chilton, Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: To update.
examples: text: I freshed meself and followed after him and made choice of me dinner.
ref: 1943, Maggie Jeanne Melody Wadelton, Maggie No Doubt, page 132:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2012, Mz. K., First Lady: A Hood Tale, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: To freshen up.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1884, United States Congressional Serial Set - Volume 2178, page 503:
text: 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 night, Was a thicket of flowers.
ref: 1902, Walter De la Mare, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, Down-adown-derry: A Book of Fairy Poems, →ISBN:
text: 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 original wound.
ref: 1918, The Indian Forest Records - Volume 6, Parts 1-6, page 316:
glosses: To renew.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1940, James Frank Kendrick, The cow tester's manual, page 23:
text: Fall Freshed Cows Produce More Milk.
ref: 1946, Co-op News – Volumes 20-21, page 3:
text: 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'!”
ref: 2009, Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: to give birth to a calf.
raw_tags: of a dairy cow