different between smash vs frush

English

Etymology

From a blend of smack +? mash. Compare Swedish smask (“a light explosion, crack, report”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

smash (plural smashes)

1. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.

2. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic collision.

3. (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc); a hit.
   • 2019, Ginaluca Russo, "Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet", Teen Vogue, 1 May 2019:

     All together, this look is a smash in our books.
4. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
5. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
6. A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.

Synonyms

• (sound of a violent impact): crash
• (colloquial: traffic accident): crash
• (colloquial: something very successful): smash hit

Descendants

• ? Czech: sme?
• ? Serbo-Croatian: sme?

Translations

Verb

smash (third-person singular simple present smashes, present participle smashing, simple past and past participle smashed)

1. To break (something brittle) violently.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter X

     Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.

2. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.

3. To hit extremely hard.

4. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.

5. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.

   I really smashed that English exam.

6. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.

7. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live:

     Farmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch only smashes with farmers?

Synonyms

• (break violently): dash, shatter
• (be destroyed by being smashed): shatter
• (hit extremely hard): pound, thump, wallop; see also Thesaurus:hit
• (ruin completely and suddenly): dash
• (defeat overwhelmingly): slaughter, trounce
• (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Descendants

• ? Catalan: esmaixar

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• HMSAS, SAHMs, Sahms, Shams, shams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English smash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sma?/

Noun

smash m (plural smashs)

1. (tennis) smash

Related terms

• smasher

Further reading

• “smash” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smash.

Noun

smash m (invariable)

1. smash (tennis shot)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English smash.

Noun

smash m (plural smashes)

1. (tennis) smash (overhead shot hit sharply downward)

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).