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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by BlueScreenDeath on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:21AM (#24157563)
Although frosh refers to a first-year student and has a resemblance to fresh, freshman is not believed to be the source of the word. More likely, frosh is from the dialectic German word for a frog, Frosch. ... Students already had a slang term for freshman, the diminutive freshie.
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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by neltnerb on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:42AM (#24157807)
The question "what it is slang for" is different from the question "what is the word derived from". The prior may well change if everyone has a group delusion and believes it is slang for something different. The latter obviously not.
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