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frush¹

  • /fɹʌʃ/

Rhymes with -ʌʃ

Where it comes from

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

verb frushes · frushing · 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.
  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 [...].
  3. historical, transitive To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

adjective more frush · most frush

  1. archaic Easily broken; brittle or crisp.

noun

  1. obsolete noise; clatter; crash Between the mountains, which in endless war Hurtle , with horrible uproar and frush

frush²

  • /fɹʌʃ/

Rhymes with -ʌʃ

Where it comes from

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

noun 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.

Frush³

proper noun

  1. A surname

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@misc{frush_2026,
  title = {frush},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/frush},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}