Sc. and north. dial. [? f. FRUSH v.; but cf. the synonymous FROUGH a.]
1. Liable to break; brittle, dry, fragile. Cf. FRUSHY a.
1802. in Scott, Minstr. Scott. Bord., II. 142. O wae betide the frush saugh wand!
1826. Blackw. Mag., XIX. 243. Frush becomes the whole cover in a few seasons; and not a bird can open its wing without scattering the straw like chaff.
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1863), 200. The bottom of the pulpit being auld and frush the wooden tram flew crash through.
1878. Cumberld. Gloss., Frush, very brittle; crumbly.
1880. Antrim & Down Gloss., Frush, brittle, as applied to wood, &c.: said of flax when the shoughs separate easily from the fibre.
fig. 1823. Galt, Entail, I. 59. When we think o the frush green kail-custock-like nature of bairns.
2. Soft, not firm in substance.
1848. T. Aird, Frank Sylvan, Poet. Wks. 302. They peel the foul brown film of rind [of the earth-nut] away To the pure white, and taste it soft and frush.
1889. Daily News, 12 Nov., 2/1. Beef that is in the flabby, unwholesome-looking condition that the butchers call frush.
3. Frank, forward. Aberd. (Jam.) ? Obs.
1779. in J. Skinners Misc. Poetry (1809), 183.
Be wha ye will, ye re unco frush | |
At praising what s nae worth a rush. |