frush

Meanings

Verb

• To break up, smash.
• To charge, rush violently.
• To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

Adjective

• Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Noun

• noise; clatter; crash
• The frog of a horse's foot.
• A discharge of a foetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush.

Origin

• From Old French fruissier, froissier (whence French froisser), from Vulgar Latin *frustiō, from Latin frustum ("fragment").
• Compare Old English frosc ("frog (animal)"), German Frosch ("frog (the animal)").