frush

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old French fruscher, from Vulgar Latin *frustiāre (break into pieces), from Latin frustum (bit, fragment). Compare French froisser.

Verb

frush (third-person singular simple present frushes, present participle frushing, simple past and past participle frushed)

  1. (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.
    • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      [] I like thy armour well;
      I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all
      But I'll be master of it.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To charge, rush violently.
  3. (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

Adjective

frush (comparative more frush, superlative most frush)

  1. Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Noun

frush

  1. (obsolete) noise; clatter; crash

Etymology 2

Compare Old English frosc (frog (animal)), German Frosch (frog (the animal)).

Noun

frush (plural frushes)

  1. (obsolete) The frog of a horse's foot.
  2. (obsolete) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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Etymology

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Pronunciation

Adjective

frush (comparative mair frush, superlative maist frush)

  1. (archaic) Brittle, weak, decayed or rotten (of organic materials).
  2. (archaic) Crumbly or loose (of soil).
  3. (archaic) Crumbly or mealy (of oatcakes or other baked goods).