Frush

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /fɹʌʃ/

From Old French fruissier, froissier ( >

French froisser), from Vulgar Latin *frustiāre, from Latin frustum ("fragment").

Full definition of frush

Verb

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, '',... I like thy armour well;I'll frush it and unlock the rivets allBut I'll be master of it.
• (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 ....
• (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

Adjective

1. Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Noun

Origin 2