frush
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French fruissier, froissier (whence French froisser), from Vulgar Latin *frustiō, from Latin frustum (“fragment”).
Verb
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- (obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xlviii:
- Rinaldo's armor frush'd and hack'd they had,
- Oft pierced through, with blood besmeared new.
- Rinaldo's armor frush'd and hack'd they had,
- 1602, William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida,
- ... I like thy armour well;
- I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all
- But I'll be master of it.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xlviii:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To charge, rush violently.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
- And than they fruyshed forth all at onys, of the bourelyest knyghtes that ever brake brede, with mo than fyve hondred at the formyst frunte [...].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
- (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).
Adjective
frush (comparative more frush, superlative most frush)
- Easily broken; brittle; crisp.
Noun
frush
- (obsolete) noise; clatter; crash
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Southey to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Compare Old English frosc (“frog (animal)”), German Frosch (“frog (the animal)”).
Noun
frush (plural frushes)
- The frog of a horse's foot.
- A discharge of a foetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “frush”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Not found in Early Scots.
Pronunciation
Adjective
frush (comparative mair frush, superlative maist frush)
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