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Frost vs Frosh - What's the difference?

frost | frosh |

As a proper noun frost

is .

As a noun frosh is

(dialectal) a frog or frosh can be (colloquial) a first year student, at certain universities.

As a verb frosh is

(slang) to initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.

frost

English

(wikipedia frost)

Noun

  • A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 47.
    • It is more probable, in almost every country of Europe, that there will be frost sometime in January, than that the weather will continue open throughout that whole month;
  • The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
  • (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath.
  • (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.

    • Derived terms

    * black frost * degree of frost * frostbite * frostbitten * frostbound * frost-tender * frosty * hoar frost, hoarfrost * Jack Frost * permafrost * uremic frost

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To get covered with frost .
  • To coat something (e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
  • To anger or annoy.
    • I think the boss's decision frosted him, a bit.

    Derived terms

    * frosting

    Anagrams

    * ----

    frosh

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) frosch, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

    Noun

    (froshes)
  • (dialectal) A frog.

    • Etymology 2

    From an alteration of freshman, under influence from (etyl) dialectal . Related to English (l) above.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (colloquial) A first year student, at certain universities.
    • That frosh is really getting on my nerves, just he wait till hell-week!
    Derived terms
    * prefrosh
    Synonyms
    * freshman * newbie * fresher (UK)

    Verb

  • (slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
    • This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
  • (slang) To damage through incompetence.
    • Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
    Derived terms
    * froshing
    Synonyms
    * (initiate) haze