Frush

//fɹʌʃ// adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    noise; clatter; crash obsolete

    "Between the mountains, which in endless war Hurtle , with horrible uproar and frush"

  2. 2
    The frog of a horse's foot. obsolete
  3. 3
    A discharge of a foetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To break up, smash. obsolete, transitive

    "Rinaldo's armor frush'd and hack'd they had, Oft pierced through, with blood besmeared new."

  2. 2
    To charge, rush violently. intransitive, obsolete

    "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 [...]."

  3. 3
    To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow). historical, transitive
Adjective
  1. 1
    Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Example

More examples

"Rinaldo's armor frush'd and hack'd they had, Oft pierced through, with blood besmeared new."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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