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frush

/fɹʌʃ/

frush verb: to break up, smash.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.
    • Rinaldo's armor frush'd and hack'd they had,
      Oft pierced through, with blood besmeared new.1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xlviii
    • […] I like thy armour well;
      I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all
      But I'll be master of it.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To charge, rush violently.
    • 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 [...].1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...
  3. (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

Adjective

frush (comparative more frush, superlative most frush)

  1. (archaic) Easily broken; brittle or crisp.

Noun (1)

frush

  1. (obsolete) noise; clatter; crash
    • Between the mountains, which in endless war
      Hurtle , with horrible uproar and frush1805, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Madoc, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A[rchibald] Constable and Co, […], by James Ballantyne, […], →OCLC

Noun (2)

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.

Proper noun capitalized: Frush

Frush

  1. A surname

Forms of frush

Verb
third-person singular presentfrushes
present participlefrushing
past participlefrushed
pastfrushed
Adjective
comparativemore frush
superlativemost frush
Noun
pluralfrushes

Origin of frush

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

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

Words formed from frush

Words that rhyme with frush

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Questions about frush

What does frush mean?
Frush means to break up, smash.
What part of speech is frush?
Frush can be a verb, an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce frush?
Frush is pronounced /fɹʌʃ/.
What is the past tense of frush?
The past tense of frush is frushed.

Words near frush in the dictionary

  1. frunks
  2. Frunze
  3. Frunză
  4. fruquintinib
  5. frusemide
  6. frush
  7. frushed
  8. frushes
  9. frushing
  10. frusht
  11. frusta

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