frush

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/fɹʌʃ/

verb

To break up, smash.

OriginOld French fruscher ← Vulgar Latin *frustiāre ← Latin frustum →
UncommonScrabble 11
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Meanings

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

present singular third person frushes · participle present frushing · participle past frushed · past frushed

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo 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
    1 more example

    […] 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)
  2. intransitiveobsoleteTo 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
  3. historicaltransitiveTo straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).
adjectivefrush (comparative more frush, superlative most frush)

comparative more frush · superlative most frush

  1. archaicEasily broken; brittle or crisp.
noun
  1. obsoletenoise; 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

frush2

nounfrush (plural frushes)

plural frushes

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

Frush3

proper noun
  1. A surname

Origin

frush · verb, adjective, noun

  1. Latinfrustum“bit, fragment”
  2. Vulgar Latin*frustiāre“break into pieces”
  3. Old Frenchfruscher
  4. Englishfrush

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

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frush · noun

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with frush

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APA

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MLA

“frush.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frush. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frush,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frush.

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