Sc. and north. dial. [? f. FRUSH v.; but cf. the synonymous FROUGH a.]

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  1.  Liable to break; brittle, dry, fragile. Cf. FRUSHY a.

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1802.  in Scott, Minstr. Scott. Bord., II. 142. O wae betide the frush saugh wand!

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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.

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1834.  M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1863), 200. The bottom of the pulpit being auld and frush the wooden tram flew crash through.

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1878.  Cumberld. Gloss., Frush, very brittle; crumbly.

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1880.  Antrim & Down Gloss., Frush, brittle, as applied to wood, &c.: said of flax when the ‘shoughs’ separate easily from the fibre.

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  fig.  1823.  Galt, Entail, I. 59. When we think o’ the frush green kail-custock-like nature of bairns.

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  2.  Soft, not firm in substance.

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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.

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1889.  Daily News, 12 Nov., 2/1. Beef that is in the flabby, unwholesome-looking condition that the butchers call ‘frush.’

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  3.  Frank, forward. Aberd. (Jam.) ? Obs.

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1779.  in J. Skinner’s Misc. Poetry (1809), 183.

        Be wha ye will, ye ’re unco frush
At praising what ’s nae worth a rush.

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