Talk:fresh

Two etymological points: (1) I really doubt the Old English is derived from the Italian, though of course the two are cognates. (2) I'm pretty sure that the "cheeky, impudent" meaning is actually derived from German frech, having been borrowed into American English by German immigrants; the homonymy with the "usual" word "fresh" is a coincidence. Angr 10:04, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

RFV discussion — failed
"Very clean, and trendy looking (of garments, clothes, shoes, accessories)." I have heard of "fresh" meaning "cool, trendy", I think, e.g. "fresh" hip-hop beats. But clothes, and particularly clean ones? Equinox ◑ 20:01, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Deleted. Equinox ◑ 01:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

fresh
Rfv-sense: without salt. A freshwater fish comes from water without salt (granted) but I don't think fresh means "without salt" on its own, does it? Mglovesfun (talk) 21:38, 10 January 2010 (UTC)


 * The adjective is freshwater or fresh-water, but the noun is fresh water. —Michael Z. 2010-03-09 23:04 z 


 * Also, the first defn "not from storage" is clearly imprecise, but I can't think of a good way to word it. I might tag that one with . Mglovesfun (talk) 21:43, 10 January 2010 (UTC)


 * “recently made or prepared?” —Michael Z. 2010-03-09 23:04 z 


 * In Spanish, we talk about "fresh water" generally meaning water suitable for human consumption, may be also implying that's untreated, such as spring water. So this would not exclude just seawater, but also every kind of polluted water, such as algae-rich water.


 * Yes, that sense should be removed, and add freshwater to related words. Diego Grez 20:46, 11 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Odd, I would have thought this was in "clearly widespread use". It's true that is a set phrase, but  pulls up tons of hits where "fresh" is a predicative adjective meaning " Being freshwater." —Ruakh TALK 20:31, 3 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Cited. One of the cites is for "fresh water", because I don't want to deceive our readers — that is the most frequent use — but a glance at the aforementioned Google Books search results should convince you that this could easily be cited exclusively in predicate position. —Ruakh TALK 20:49, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

RFV passed. —Ruakh TALK 04:11, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March–July 2014
"(computing, of a release package or software installation) Having only the files and settings of a specific release of the software package; without updates or upgrades that were released subsequent to the release of a specific version. A fresh installation of Windows XP has Internet Explorer version 6. QA uses a fresh copy of the old version to test backward-compatibility of new add-ons." I believe that such sentences are merely sense 1 ("Newly produced or obtained"). A fresh copy of a file could just be a new copy one has made; it only so happens that a fresh installation will never include items that were released separately later. Equinox ◑ 00:25, 4 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, just sense 1. In British English (if it wasn't for Microsoft) we'd probably just say "a new installation" and "a new copy" because "fresh" is less often used with sense 1 on this side of the pond.    D b f  i  r  s   22:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Failed. — Ungoliant (falai) 23:57, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

fresh as a verb
Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (W. Caxton's edition, 1484), Book IX, Capitulum xxxiiij :
 * Soo whan fire Tristram was departed by the forests syde he alyght & vnlaced his harneis and fresshed his woūd
 * "So when Sir Tristram was departed by the forest’s side he alighted and unlaced his harness and freshed his wound''

Does that verb mean "freshen", "clean", "see", "examine" ? — 2A01:CB08:8913:1900:9559:F642:14CE:766A 19:46, 23 August 2022 (UTC)