Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To crush; bruise; break in pieces.
- To rush; dash forward.
- noun An onset, attack, assault, or collision.
- noun The noise of collision.
- noun Fragments; debris.
- Brittle; apt to break and splinter: said of wood.
- noun In farriery, same as
frog , 1. - noun A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To batter; to break in pieces.
- adjective Easily broken; brittle; crisp.
- noun rare Noise; clatter; crash.
- noun (Far.) The frog of a horse's foot.
- noun A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled
thrush.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
frog of ahorse 'sfoot . - noun A
discharge of afoetid orichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot;thrush . - verb obsolete, transitive To
break up,smash . - verb obsolete, intransitive To
charge ,rush violently. - verb historical, transitive To
straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).
Etymologies
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Examples
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She had held up the little wooden cage, opened the clasp of the door and, with a rapt smile on her small shining face, was watching the "frush" as he soared into the air with a sudden burst of song.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 Various
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She wants, "I said dramatically," a 'frush' from the bird-shop in the village.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 Various
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Ai goz Mimmoserz mad wit Dom Penguinon an frush strewberri pi fer desserz!
mine daddeh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Nay, even than single sermons, or bundles of sermons, all like so many sticks -- strong when tied all together, but when taken separately, weak and frush.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 Various
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Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various
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"Yeah, well I have two sevens and two sevens beats a frush."
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Like a frush!) to keep her flouncies off the grass while paying the wetmenots a musichall visit and pair her fiefighs fore him with just one curl after the cad came back which we fought he wars a gunner and his corkiness lay up two bottles of joy with a shandy had by Fred and a fino oloroso which he was warming to, my right, Jimmy, my old brown freer? —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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V. vi.29 (144,3) I'll frush it] The word _frush_ I never found elsewhere, nor understand it.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
ruzuzu commented on the word frush
"4. In farriery, same as frog . . . ."
--CD&C
November 1, 2011