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Flushed vs Frushed - What's the difference?

flushed | frushed |

As verbs the difference between flushed and frushed

is that flushed is past tense of flush while frushed is past tense of frush.

As an adjective flushed

is red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.

flushed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • Archer lay spread out, with one arm striking across the pillow. He was flushed ; and when the heavy curtain blew out a little he turned and half-opened his eyes.

    Synonyms

    * blushing * red * red-faced

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flush)

    • frushed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (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) ----