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Frushes vs Froshes - What's the difference?

frushes | froshes |

As verbs the difference between frushes and froshes

is that frushes is (frush) while froshes is (frosh).

frushes

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) ----

    froshes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (frosh)

    • frosh

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) frosch, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

    Noun

    (froshes)
  • (dialectal) A frog.

    • Etymology 2

    From an alteration of freshman, under influence from (etyl) dialectal . Related to English (l) above.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (colloquial) A first year student, at certain universities.
    • That frosh is really getting on my nerves, just he wait till hell-week!
    Derived terms
    * prefrosh
    Synonyms
    * freshman * newbie * fresher (UK)

    Verb

  • (slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
    • This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
  • (slang) To damage through incompetence.
    • Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
    Derived terms
    * froshing
    Synonyms
    * (initiate) haze