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frush en · ADJ · etymology 1

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

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

(obsolete) noise; clatter; crash
- Between the mountains, which in endless war Hurtle , with horrible uproar and frush 1805, 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:

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

(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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
(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] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
(historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

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

(obsolete) The frog of a horse's foot.
(obsolete) A discharge of a foetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush.

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