frush
adjEtymology From Old French fruscher, from Vulgar Latin *frustiāre (“break into pieces”), from Latin frustum (“bit, fragment”). Compare French froisser.
1
Archaic Easily broken; brittle or crisp.
frush
verb/fɹʌʃ/
Etymology From Old French fruscher, from Vulgar Latin *frustiāre (“break into pieces”), from Latin frustum (“bit, fragment”). Compare French froisser.
1
Obsolete 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):
2
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:
3
Historical To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).
- Derived terms
- tofrush