Froshed vs Frushed - What's the difference?
froshed | frushed |
(frosh)
(dialectal) A frog.
(colloquial) A first year student, at certain universities.
(slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
(slang) To damage through incompetence.
(frush)
(obsolete) To break up, smash.
* 1600 , Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xlviii:
*:: Oft pierced through, with blood besmeared new.
* 1602 , ,
(obsolete) To charge, rush violently.
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
(historical) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).
(obsolete) 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.
(Webster 1913)
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As verbs the difference between froshed and frushed
is that froshed is past tense of frosh while frushed is past tense of frush.froshed
English
Verb
(head)frosh
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) frosch, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Noun
(froshes)Etymology 2
From an alteration of freshman, under influence from (etyl) dialectal . Related to English (l) above.Noun
(en-noun)- That frosh is really getting on my nerves, just he wait till hell-week!
Derived terms
* prefroshSynonyms
* freshman * newbie * fresher (UK)Verb
- This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
- Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
Derived terms
* froshingSynonyms
* (initiate) hazefrushed
English
Verb
(head)frush
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fruissier, (froissier) ( > French froisser), from .Verb
(es)- Rinaldo's armor frush'd and hack'd they had,
- ... I like thy armour well;
- I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all
- But I'll be master of it.
- 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 [...].
Noun
- (Southey)