frush
/fɹʌʃ/verb
frush is a verb meaning “To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-U-S-H and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does frush mean?
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo break up, smash.
Rinaldo's armor frush'd and hack'd they had, Oft pierced through, with blood besmeared new.
- 2
obsoleteTo charge, rush violently.
- 3
To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).
adjective
- 1
archaicEasily broken; brittle or crisp.
noun
- 1
obsoletenoise; clatter; crash
- 2
obsoleteThe frog of a horse's foot.
- 3
obsoleteA discharge of a foetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frush?
- /fɹʌʃ/
Frush has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-frush.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of frush
- frushes present, singular, he/she/it
- frushing participle, present
- frushed participle, past
- more frush comparative
- most frush superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frush?
Frush appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does frush come from?
From Old French fruscher, from Vulgar Latin *frustiāre (“break into pieces”), from Latin frustum (“bit, fragment”). Compare French froisser.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).