单词 | freshwoman |
释义 | freshwomann. Now chiefly North American. A female student in her first year at a university or college. Also: (U.S.) a female member of Congress serving her first term in office.In quot. a1627 in a humorous and apparently isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student puny1548 freshman1583 puisne1592 freshwomana1627 bejan1642 nib1655 jib1827 greeny1834 fox1839 freshie1845 rat1850 buttery Benjie1854 pennal1854 yellow-beak1865 fresher1875 yellow-neb1879 yearling1908 frosh1915 a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iii. 35 Mother you doe intreat like a fresh Woman. 1871 Scribner's Monthly 2 347 To bring them where they can enter as Freshmen, or Fresh Women. 1885 Academy 21 Nov. 347 A fresh-woman—if that is the girl-equivalent of fresh-man—is to play the second lady. 1921 Trinity Arch. (Trinity College, Durham, N. Carolina) 152 She is a Freshwoman but she don't act like one. 1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 June d18/1 Referring to the primary candidates she will face for the nomination, she said: ‘I am the only one who will not be a freshman, or freshwoman, when I go to Washington’. 2015 Grizzly (Collegeville, Pa.) (Nexis) 12 Feb. 1 The freshwomen of the UC swim team have faced the challenge of replacing a championship-winning senior class. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1627 |
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