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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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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. Of plant material, still green and not dried.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
      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 […]
  3. Refreshing or cool.
    What a nice fresh breeze.
  4. (Can we verify() this sense?) Without salt (especially of water).
    After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.
  5. Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate.
    No one liked his fresh comments.
  6. Rested; not tired or fatigued.

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fresh (not comparable)

  1. (informal) This word needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{}}.
    I'm fresh out of ideas.

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.

 

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