Fresh vs Flippant - What's the difference?
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Newly produced or obtained.
Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.
(of plant material) Still green and not dried.
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Refreshing or cool.
(of water) Without salt; not saline.
* (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628),
* 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co.,
* 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995,
Rested; not tired or fatigued.
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In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
youthful; florid
* Shakespeare
A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Nebraska, 1987), page 21:
A stream or spring of fresh water.
* Shakespeare
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.
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Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
(archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
* Barrow
nimble; limber.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
* Burke
* 1998 , , The Metaphysical Touch
* 2000 , Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
* 2004 , , The Easy Way to Stop Smoking , page 147
Fresh is a related term of flippant.
As adjectives the difference between fresh and flippant
is that fresh is newly produced or obtained or fresh can be rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward while flippant is (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity.As a noun fresh
is a rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.fresh
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fresch, fersch, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
- I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.
- 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
- 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
- What a nice fresh breeze.
- After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.
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- There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,
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- When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;
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- Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.
- 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.
- a fresh hand on a ship
- these fresh nymphs
Synonyms
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* staleDerived terms
* afresh * fresh air * fresh as a daisy * fresh bean * fresh country eggs * fresh breeze * fresh fish * fresh food * fresh frozen plasma * fresh gale * fresh ground/fresh-ground * fresh legs * fresh-new * fresh off the boat * fresh out of * fresh start * fresh water/freshwater * freshen * fresher * freshly * freshman * freshment * freshness * hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire * refresh * refreshingNoun
(freshes)- 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.
- He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.
Etymology 2
1848, US slang, probably from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(er)- No one liked his fresh comments.
- Hey, don't get fresh with me!
Derived terms
* fresher * freshness * get freshSynonyms
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* 1000 English basic wordsflippant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
- a sort of flippant , vain discourse
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant , at least.
- In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.