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fresh | frush |

As adjectives the difference between fresh and frush

is that fresh is newly produced or obtained or fresh can be rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward while frush is easily broken; brittle; crisp.

As nouns the difference between fresh and frush

is that fresh is a rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood while frush is (obsolete) noise; clatter; crash or frush can be the frog of a horse's foot.

As a verb frush is

(obsolete|transitive) to break up, smash.

fresh

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fresch, fersch, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)
  • Newly produced or obtained.
    • He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
    I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.
  • Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.
    • After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.
    I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.
    a glass of fresh milk
  • (of plant material) Still green and not dried.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • Refreshing or cool.
    • What a nice fresh breeze.
  • (of water) Without salt; not saline.
    • After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.
  • * (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49:
    • There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,
  • * 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co., page 230:
    • When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;
  • * 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995, page 1557:
    • Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.
  • Rested; not tired or fatigued.
  • * '>citation
    • Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.
  • In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
    • a fresh hand on a ship
  • youthful; florid
  • * Shakespeare
    • these fresh nymphs
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * stale
    Derived terms
    * afresh * fresh air * fresh as a daisy * fresh bean * fresh country eggs * fresh breeze * fresh fish * fresh food * fresh frozen plasma * fresh gale * fresh ground/fresh-ground * fresh legs * fresh-new * fresh off the boat * fresh out of * fresh start * fresh water/freshwater * freshen * fresher * freshly * freshman * freshment * freshness * hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire * refresh * refreshing

    Noun

    (freshes)
  • A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
  • * 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Nebraska, 1987), page 21:
    • They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh , and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.
  • A stream or spring of fresh water.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.
  • The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
  • *

    • Etymology 2

    1848, US slang, probably from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
    • No one liked his fresh comments.
  • Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
    • Hey, don't get fresh with me!
    Derived terms
    * fresher * freshness * get fresh
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    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) ----