fresh
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
commerce
commercial
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
zoology
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”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk frisk (“fresh”), Swedish frisk (“well, fresh”), 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.
Inflected forms:
form: fresher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: freshest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: freshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: freshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Newly produced or obtained; recent.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
Where will you find a purer and more suggestive bit of criticism given in a fresher and more implicatory style than the following?
Ross Douthat's gotten a lot of pushback for using his soapbox to complain that liberal Christianity lacks "a religious reason for its own existence." And with good reason—it'd be nice if the national paper of record's faithiest columnist could at least spin a fresher argument against us mainliners.
gloss: Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
pos: adj
examples: 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
In fact, street food may well be fresher than that served in restaurants and cafes, as it is cooked at the point of sale. It's certainly much cheaper.
The ravenette smiled. Today was her little sister’s birthday, and what better way to commemorate than eating salad brimmed with the freshest of fruits. Following Tala, Amihan felt her heart sore. Luscious short brown hair, almond-shaped eyes, gleaming smiles, there is no one as extravagant as her beloved, Bagwis.
gloss: (of plant material) Still green and not dried.
pos: adj
examples: 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 desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
gloss: Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
pos: adj
examples: 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 the pine forests; hinting at the chill blue scent of distant snows.
gloss: Without salt; not saline.
pos: adj
examples: 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; […]
Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.
gloss: Rested; not tired or fatigued.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
pos: adj
examples: a fresh hand on a ship
gloss: Youthful; florid.
pos: adj
examples: these fresh nymphs
gloss: Good, fashionable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: 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 come true
 I'll give anything to spend the night with you
Because my devastating beats I know you will like / You see my beat box is fresh, it'll blow your mind
gloss: Tipsy; drunk.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
slang
examples: 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.
gloss: Recently; just recently; most recently.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are fresh out of milk.
fresh-cooked salmon.
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 cloaks.
gloss: A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A stream or spring of fresh water.
pos: noun
examples: […]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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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 there, to grant them a safe passage. It is call'd a Fresh, when after very great Rains, or (as we suppose) after a great Thaw of the Snow and Ice lying upon the Mountains Page 43 to the North West, the Water descends, in such abundance into the Rivers, that they overflow the Banks which bound their Streams at other times.
gloss: To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
pos: verb
examples: 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 the river.
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.
The salinity is variated, and locally the lake water is freshed in a step manner.
gloss: To become stronger.
pos: verb
examples: 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 cloudy.
gloss: To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
pos: verb
examples: 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."
gloss: To update.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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.
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."
gloss: To freshen up.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To renew.
pos: verb
examples: 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 night, Was a thicket of flowers.
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.
gloss: Of a dairy cow, to give birth to a calf.
pos: verb
examples: 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'!”
Derived words: afresh
box-fresh
breath of fresh air
crescent fresh
fresh air
fresh as a daisy
fresh as a rose
fresh as paint
fresh bean
fresh blood
fresh breeze
fresh cheese
Fresh Coast
fresh country egg
fresh country eggs
fresh cut
freshen
fresh eyes
fresh-faced
fresh fish
fresh food
fresh frozen plasma
fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
fresh gale
fresh grad
fresh ground
fresh-ground
fresh hell
freshie
freshish
fresh legs
freshling
fresh lumpia
freshly
freshman
Fresh Meadows
fresh meat
freshmint
fresh-new
fresh off the boat
fresh out of
fresh-out-of-college
fresh pair of eyes
freshperson
fresh pursuit
fresh start
fresh up
fresh-water
fresh water
freshwater
freshwoman
fresh yeast
funky fresh
lemony fresh
refresh
refreshing
start a fresh hare
unfresh
fresher
freshness
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