fresh

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not canned or otherwise preserved

   fresh vegetables

2. 2
   adj

   not containing or composed of salt water

   fresh water

3. 3
   adj

   (of a cycle) beginning or occurring again

   a fresh start

4. 4
   adj

   having recently calved and therefore able to give milk

   the cow is fresh

5. 5
   adj

   improperly forward or bold

   don't be fresh with me

6. 6
   adj

   not yet used or soiled

   a fresh shirt

7. 7
   adj

   recently made, produced, or harvested

   fresh bread

8. 8
   adj

   Newly produced or obtained; recent.

   He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

Etymology

From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective. Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Norwegian and Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sw…