fresh

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.4 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English fresh from Old English fersc (“‘fresh ("not salty", applied to water)’”) from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“‘fresh’”). Akin to Old Frisian fersk, Old High German frisc (“‘fresh’”) (German frisch), Old Norse ferskr, Dutch vers

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɹɛʃ/
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  Rhymes: -ɛʃ

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fresh (comparative fresher, superlative freshest)

1. Of produce, not from storage.

   I had a fresh salad made from vegetables straight out of the garden.

2. Refreshing or cool.

   What a nice fresh breeze.

3. Without salt (especially of water).

   The islanders drank from a fresh water spring.

4. Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate.

   No one liked his fresh comments.

5. (military) Rested and ready to fight immediately.

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• See also Wikisaurus:cheeky

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• stale

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afresh fresh air fresh bean fresh country eggs fresh breeze fresh fish fresh food fresh frozen plasma fresh gale

fresh legs fresh-new fresh off the boat fresh out of fresh start fresh water/freshwater freshen fresher

freshly freshman freshment freshness get fresh hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire refresh refreshing

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[edit] Noun

fresh (plural freshes)

1. A rush of water, along a river or on to the land; a flood.
   • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 21:

     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.