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fresh

UK/fɹɛʃ/ US/ˈfrɛʃ/ common slang

adjective

1.

not stale or old

  • “fresh bread”
  • “a fresh scent”
2.

(of a cycle) beginning or occurring again

  • “a fresh start”
  • “fresh ideas”
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4.

of a kind not seen before

  • “the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem”
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5.

not canned or otherwise preserved

  • “fresh vegetables”
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6.

not containing or composed of salt water

  • “fresh water”
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7.

having recently calved and therefore able to give milk

  • “the cow is fresh”
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9.

not soured or preserved

  • “sweet milk”
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10.

free from impurities

  • “clean water”
  • “fresh air”
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11.

not artificial

  • “fresh cut flowers”
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12.

not yet used or soiled

  • “a fresh shirt”
  • “a fresh sheet of paper”
  • “an unused envelope”
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13.

improperly forward or bold

  • “don”
  • “;”
  • “;”

adverb

1.

very recently

  • “they are newly married”
  • “newly raised objections”
  • “a newly arranged hairdo”
  • “grass new washed by the rain”
  • “a freshly cleaned floor”
  • “we are fresh out of tomatoes”

Origin

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.

Phrases

  • breath of fresh air
  • crescent fresh
  • fresh air
  • fresh as a daisy
  • fresh as a rose
  • fresh as paint
  • fresh bean
  • fresh blood
  • get fresh

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See also

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