Freshly

  

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Freshly

Definition: Freshly

Freshly

Adverb

1. Very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes".

2. In an impudent or impertinent manner; "a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "freshly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

 

Synonyms: Freshly

Synonyms: fresh (adv), impertinently (adv), impudently (adv), new (adv), newly (adv), pertly (adv), recently (adv), saucily (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Freshly

English words defined with "freshly": atomic number 82break, brushedcome apartfall apart, fresh, Fulleriron-gray, iron-greyleadnew, newlyPb, polishedrecently, regosolseparate, skid road, soft-shell crab, soft-shelled crab, split up, strongwarm, Water tree. (references)
Specialty definitions using "freshly": al frescobaker, paint, bucket temperatureCALATHEA ALLOUIA, CALATOLA, cement finisher, CEMENT MASON, cement paver, CENTRIFUGE OPERATOR, PLASMA PROCESSING, concrete finisher, concrete floaterDESSERT-CUP-MACHINE FEEDER, Dirt, dries, dryer feeder, DRYING-OVEN ATTENDANTenamel burnerField, forest littergreen topice and snow albedokiln tenderLABORATORY TECHNICIAN, ARTIFICIAL BREEDINGmotor-change manOVEN TENDER, OYSTER FLOATERPLASTERER, MOLDING, plasterer, ornamental, precooked dish, prepared foodquarry face, quarry waterrid-up runnerssap displacement, sap displacement treatment, sap replacement, sap replacement treatment, skeletal soil, skin-drying-room attendant, Snow Core, SOFT CRAB SHEDDER, soil consisting of stone, stepping sap displacement treatment, STREET-LIGHT REPAIRERtableVENEER DRIER, VENEER-DRIER FEEDER, veneer-drier tailerwet fish, workability. (references)

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Modern Usage: Freshly

DomainUsage

Screenplays

They'll make a suit from your freshly peeled skin (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott)

That freshly bewed Convient Coffee every morning get's me movin' (The Ernest Film Festival; writing credit: Georg Schiemann)

Lyrics

On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow (I Am a Rock; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

Tongue Twisters

Freshly fried fresh flesh. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Freshly

DomainTitle

Books

  • Freshly Remember'd (reference)

  • Freshly remembered : half a century of school (reference)

  • Green Wood for the Garden: 15 Easy Weekend Projects Using Freshly Cut Wood (reference)

  • Kingdom of the Freshly Mourned (reference)

  • Raw Juices for Health: How to Use Freshly Pressed Juices for Restoring Vitality (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Freshly

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

A female Diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, puts the final touches on her freshly laid nest of eggs. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Freshly picked okra. Credit: USDA.

Closeup of freshly split orange. Credit: USDA.

Freshly dug potatoes lay on the ground to be placed in barrels for shipment to the processing plant during the Maine harvest near Limestone. Credit: USDA.

Barrels of freshly harvested potatoes wait in the field to be hoised aboard a truck for shipment to a processing plant near Limestone, Maine. Credit: USDA.

Spanish-American woman removing freshly baked bread from outdoor earthen oven near Taos, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Marking freshly shorn sheep in Malheur County, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Freshly scoured and dried wool at wool scouring plant. San Marcos, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

After skinning the freshly killed hog, the entrails are put in a wheelbarrow to be carted away. Iowa, Harry Madsen Farm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grading, wrapping and packing pears at Hood River, Oregon. 6,500,000 boxes of freshly packed fruit are shipped from Hood River annually. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Freshly
 

"Lucia bun" by Jimmy Svensson
Commentary: "Freshly made lucia buns."
"Hay Field 1" by Shawn Sutherland
Commentary: "Freshly harvested hay bales."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: Freshly

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, and ransacked the whole forest, and had rummaged every spot where the earth seemed to have been freshly disturbed

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Freshly

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Sporotrichosis can be confirmed when a doctor obtains a swab or a biopsy of a freshly opened skin nodule and submits it to a laboratory for fungal culture. (references)

Business

Future plans are to develop the freshly started e-commerce services and to establish mobile Internet and mobile commerce services. (references)

Economic History

Eritrea

In the past, there have been terrorist incidents by dissident groups such as Eritrean Islamic Salvation, in one of which three foreigners were killed in 1995. Since the end of the war with Ethiopia, there have been some instances of what may have been banditry or politically motivated violence in western Eritrea and occasional detonations of what may have been freshly laid mines in western Eritrea. (references)

Travel

Bahamas

Local cuisine tends to favor freshly caught seafood, particularly using grouper, lobster (locally known as "crawfish"), and conch (a Caribbean shellfish), but American and ethnic cuisine such as Chinese and Italian are also available. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

TABLE D':HOTE:, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility. Old Paunchinello, freshly wed, Took Madam P. to table, And there deliriously fed As fast as he was able. "I dote upon good grub," he cried, Intent upon its throatage. "Ah, yes," said the neglected bride, "You're in your table d'hotage." Associated Poets

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Freshly

"Freshly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.56% of the time. "Freshly" is used about 684 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)99.56%6819,711
Noun (proper)0.44%3202,518
                    Total100.00%684N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Freshly

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "freshly": freshly-baked, freshly-brewed, freshly-broken, freshly-churned, freshly-coated, freshly-cooked, freshly-cropped, freshly-crushed, freshly-cut, freshly-delivered, freshly-dug, freshly-erupted, freshly-fallen, freshly-fried, freshly-gathered, freshly-grated, freshly-ground, freshly-hardened, freshly-harrowed, freshly-hatched, freshly-hit, freshly-ironed, freshly-killed, freshly-laundered, freshly-leaved, freshly-lit, freshly-made, freshly-mixed, freshly-mown, freshly-oiled, freshly-painted, freshly-picked, freshly-prepared, freshly-purchased, freshly-restored, freshly-scrubbed, freshly-slaughtered, freshly-sliced, freshly-stamped, freshly-turned, freshly-weeded.

Ending with "freshly": cart-freshly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Freshly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

freshly squeezed

7

coffee freshly gourmet roasted

6

caught fairy freshly

3

freshly orange squeezed

3

bottled freshly orange squeezed

3

freshly

2

assembling freshly molded part

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Freshly

Language Translations for "freshly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fllad (breath, breeze, gale, zephyr), s'ka pak, rishtas (afresh, newly). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏على نحو حديث. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

свежо, току-що (fresh, just now, newly), наскоро (briefly, fresh, in the offing, newly, recently), прясно. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

新鲜地. (various references)

   

Czech

  

novì (anew, new, newly), èerstvì. (various references)

   

Danish

  

frisk tilberedt vand (freshly prepared water), frisk beton (fresh concrete, freshly-mixed concrete, freshly-mixed concrete cast-in-place, freshly-mixed concrete cast-in-situ, freshly-mixed concrete poured-in-place, green concrete, newly laid concrete), nymalker (fresh cow, freshly calved cow, newly calved cow), nymalkende ko (fresh cow, freshly calved cow, newly calved cow), netop isolerede hepatocytter i passende medium (freshly dissociated hepatocytes in an appropriate medium), der tilsaettes nogle draaber af en frisk tilberedt 0,5%'s vandig oploesning af xylenolorange og titreres med en 1/10 N-komplexon III oploesning,til farven slaar om fra rosa til citrongult (add a few drops of a 0.5% freshly prepared aqueous solution of xylenol orange and titrate with an N/10 solution of Complexon III until the pink changes to citron yellow). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

versmelkte koe (fresh cow, freshly calved cow, newly calved cow), vers gedestilleerd (freshly distilled), vers beton (fresh concrete, freshly-mixed concrete, green concrete, newly laid concrete), ter plaatse gestort beton (freshly-mixed concrete cast-in-place, freshly-mixed concrete cast-in-situ, freshly-mixed concrete poured-in-place), pas gestort beton (fresh concrete, freshly-mixed concrete, green concrete, newly laid concrete), pas gedissocieerde hepatocyten in een geschikt medium (freshly dissociated hepatocytes in an appropriate medium), nieuwmelkte koe (fresh cow, freshly calved cow, newly calved cow), men voegt een paar druppels van een vers bereide,waterige 0,5% dimethylphenoloranje-oplossing toe en titreert met een oplossing van complexon III 0,1 n totdat het rose omslaat naar citroengeel (add a few drops of a 0.5% freshly prepared aqueous solution of xylenol orange and titrate with an N/10 solution of Complexon III until the pink changes to citron yellow). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

juuri (foot, fully, just, just now, newly, quite, root). (various references)

   

French

  

récemment, nouvellement. (various references)

   

German

  

frisch (adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, cheery, chill, chilly, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, keen, new, newly, newly-laid, nippy, Parky, recent, sweet, undressed, wet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πρόσφατα (lately, newly, of late, recently). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לא מכבר (lately, recently), ברעננות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

frissen (blithely, fresh, newly), újonnan (newly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

recentemente (late, latecomer, lately, newly, recently), novellino (abecedarian, beginner, fresh, green, greenhorn, inexperienced, recruit, young, youthfully), in modo fresco, appena (as soon as, barely, hardly, just, merely, new, only, only just, scarcely, soon, sooner). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

煎り立て (freshly parched), 煎じ立て (freshly drawn), 生首 (freshly severed head), 搗き立て (freshly pounded), 浜焼き (freshly caught seafood broiled at a beach), 新鋭 (freshly picked, newly produced), 汲み立て (freshly drawn), 洗い髪 (freshly washed hair), 洗い立て (freshly washed), 剃立て (clean shaven, freshly shaven), 上がり (advance income, after, ascent, completion, crop yield, death, ex, finish, freshly-drawn green tea, rise, slope, spinning, stop), 塗立て (freshly painted), 塗り立て (freshly painted), 切り立て (freshly cut). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すりたて (clean shaven, freshly shaven, just off the press), なまくび (freshly severed head), そりたて (clean shaven, freshly shaven), きりたて (freshly cut), しんえい (freshly picked, monarch's guards, newly produced, portrait), くみたて (assembly, construction, erection, framework, freshly drawn, organization), ぬりたて (freshly painted), つきたて (freshly pounded), せんじたて (freshly drawn), いりたて (freshly parched), あがり (advance income, after, ascent, completion, crop yield, death, ex, finish, freshly-drawn green tea, rise, slope, spinning, stop), あらいたて (freshly washed), あらいがみ (freshly washed hair), はまやき (freshly caught seafood broiled at a beach). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

신선하게. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eshlyfray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

frescamente, recentemente (lately, latterly, newly, now, of late, recently, yesterday), recém, há pouco (just, lately, newly, now). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

recent (fresh, green, hot, late, lately, latter, latter day, latterly, low, new, newly, recent, recently, up to date), de curând (fresh, late, lately, latterly, low, new, newly, of late), cu vioiciune (sharp), cu prospeţime. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

недавно (a short time ago, fresh, late, lately, latterly, newly, of late, recently). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sveže (chilly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

recién (just, newly, recently), no hace mucho tiempo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

friskt (ever so, like anything), färskt (fresh), nytt (new, newly), nyligen (just, lately, latterly, of late, recently). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeni (fresh, green, hot, incoming, ingoing, kaino-, maiden, neo-, neoteric, new, newly, novel, novice, only just, recent, recently, renewed, smart, young), taze taze (fresh), taze (crisp, dewy, fresh, green, hot, new, raw, tender, warm), henüz (just, just now, scarcely, still, yet). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

свіжо (sweetly), нещодавно (lately, new, newly, not long ago, short time ago), заново (afresh, new, newly), бадьоро. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vừa mới có vẻ tươi, tươi mát khoẻ khắn, lại bắt đầu lại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Freshly

Misspellings

"Freshly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farghaly, Frehley, Fresel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Freshly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "freshly" (pronounced fre"shlē)
4-e" sh l ēespecially.
3-sh l ēbearishly, bullishly, devilishly, lavishly, feverishly, foolishly, girlishly, harshly, lushly, sheepishly, slavishly, sluggishly, stylishly.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Freshly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-h-l-r-s-y"

-1 letter: fleshy, flyers.

-2 letters: ferly, flesh, fleys, flyer, fresh, herls, lehrs, lyres, refly, shelf, shyer, slyer.

-3 letters: fehs, fley, herl, hers, lehr, leys, lyes, lyre, lyse, refs, rely, resh, ryes, self, serf.

-4 letters: efs, elf, els, ers, feh, fer, fey, fly, fry, her, hes, hey, ley, lye, ref, res, rye, sel, ser, she, shy, sly.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-h-l-r-s-y"
 

+1 letter: horsefly.

 

+3 letters: feverishly, freakishly, highflyers.

 

+4 letters: flycatchers.

 

+5 letters: farsightedly, refreshingly, shellfishery, thriftlessly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Bibliography


  

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