FRESHIE

Etymology

Noun

freshie (countable and uncountable, plural freshies)

(countable, colloquial, US) A freshman.

(countable, colloquial, UK) A new immigrant (usually to the UK).

(countable, colloquial, Australia) A freshwater crocodile

(uncountable, colloquial, skiing) Freshly fallen snow.

Synonyms

• (freshman): fresher, frosh

• (new immigrant): comeling, FOB, greener, newling; see also newcomer

Anagrams

• freeish, heifers

Source: Wiktionary



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DIRECTIONALITY

(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”


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