Word: freshhuman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anybody, any animal or, for that matter, any thing, officials at Nebraska Wesleyan University have decided to avoid "freshman," deemed by a sufficient number of people to be a filthy, sexist term if there ever was one. "Freshperson" was presumably considered an insulting substitute, and so, perhaps, were "freshindividual," "freshhuman," "freshgirl" and "freshboy." Henceforth, a first-year student at Nebraska Wesleyan will be a "first-year student." A second-year student will ; continue to be called "sophomore" -- from the Greek sophos (wise) and moros (foolish). The adjective form, sophomoric, may at times be used to modify "college official...
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