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Brusht vs Frusht - What's the difference?

brusht | frusht |

In obsolete terms the difference between brusht and frusht

is that brusht is past tense of brush while frusht is past tense of frush.

As an adjective brusht

is obsolete form of brushed.

brusht

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (brush)

    • frusht

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (frush)

    • frush

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fruissier, (froissier) ( > French froisser), from .

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) 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 , ,
    • ... I like thy armour well;
    I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all
    But I'll be master of it.
  • (obsolete) 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 [...].
  • (historical) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

    • Noun

  • (obsolete) noise; clatter; crash
    • (Southey)

    Etymology 2

    Compare Old English frosch, (frosk), a frog (the animal), (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • The frog of a horse's foot.
  • A discharge of a foetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush.
    • (Webster 1913) ----