different between frush vs frosh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Old French fruissier, froissier (whence French froisser), from Vulgar Latin *frusti?, from Latin frustum (“fragment”).

Verb

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

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, The History of Troilus and Cressida,

     ... I like thy armour well;

     I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all

     But I'll be master of it.

2. (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 [...].

3. (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

Adjective

frush (comparative more frush, superlative most frush)

1. Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Noun

frush

1. (obsolete) noise; clatter; crash
   • 1805, Robert Southey, Madoc

     Between the mountains, which in endless war
     Hurtle , with horrible uproar and frush

Etymology 2

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

Noun

frush (plural frushes)

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

Anagrams

• Fuhrs

Scots

Alternative forms

• frusch, fruish, frosh

Etymology

Not found in Early Scots.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???/

Adjective

frush (comparative mair frush, superlative maist frush)

1. (archaic) Brittle, weak, decayed or rotten (of organic materials).
2. (archaic) Crumbly or loose (of soil).
3. (archaic) Crumbly or mealy (of oatcakes or other baked goods).

English

Pronunciation

• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /f???/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /f???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English fros? (“frog”), from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“frog”), Icelandic froskur (“frog”). See also frosk, frog.

Noun

frosh (plural froshes)

1. (now dialectal) A frog.
   • 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:

     The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise.

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of freshman +? sophomore.

Noun

frosh (plural froshes or frosh)

1. (colloquial) A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.

   That frosh is really getting on my nerves!

Synonyms

• underclassman
• newbie
• fresher (UK)

Derived terms

• prefrosh

Translations

Verb

frosh (third-person singular simple present froshes, present participle froshing, simple past and past participle froshed)

1. (transitive, slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.

   This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.

2. (transitive, slang) To damage through incompetence.

   Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.

Synonyms

• (initiate): haze

Derived terms

• froshing

Translations

Middle English

Noun

frosh

1. Alternative form of frossh