frush

• IPA^(key): /fɹʌʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

From Old French fruissier, froissier (whence French froisser), from Vulgar Latin *frustiō, from Latin frustum (“fragment”).

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.

   • 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.

2. (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 [...].

3. (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

frush (comparative more frush, superlative most frush)

1. Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

frush

1. (obsolete) noise; clatter; crash

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Southey to this entry?)

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

frush (plural frushes)

1. The frog of a horse's foot.
2. A discharge of a foetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush.

• Fuhrs

• frusch, fruish, frosh

Not found in Early Scots.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌʃ/

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).