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FRUSH

Definition: FRUSH

FRUSH

Adjective

1. Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Noun

1. A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.

2. The frog of a horse's foot.

3. Noise; clatter; crash.

Transitive verb

1. To batter; to break in pieces.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FRUSH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

"FRUSH" is a common misspelling or typo for: brush, crush, flush, fresh, rush.


Name Usage Frequency: FRUSH

The following table summarizes the usage of "FRUSH" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FrushLast name20040,720
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FRUSH

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

frush pearl

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FRUSH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-h-r-s-u"

-1 letter: furs, rhus, rush, surf.

-2 letters: fur.

-3 letters: sh, uh, us.

 Words containing the letters "f-h-r-s-u"
 

+2 letters: flusher, fourths, fuhrers, furbish, furnish.

 

+3 letters: brushoff, bushfire, chaufers, drumfish, flourish, flushers, fraughts, frumpish, fuehrers, furthers, furthest, futharcs, futharks, futhorcs, futhorks, gruffish, hausfrau, shuffler, surffish.

 

+4 letters: brushfire, brushoffs, bushfires, chauffers, farmhouse, firehouse, furbished, furbisher, furbishes, furloughs, furnished, furnisher, furnishes, hausfraus, refurbish, refurnish, reshuffle, shufflers, surfperch, thrustful, thurifers, trunkfish.

 

+5 letters: brushfires, butterfish, chauffeurs, crushproof, disfurnish, drumfishes, farmhouses, firehouses, flourished, flourisher, flourishes, foxhunters, furbishers, furbishing, furnishers, furnishing, furtherers, groundfish, guitarfish, harborfuls, hausfrauen, housefront, rechauffes, reshuffled, reshuffles, sprightful, sulfhydryl, surffishes, turboshaft, worshipful.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FRUSH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 52 55 53 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-.    ..-    ...    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010010 01010101 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#82 &#85 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0052 0055 0053 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4052555342

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Names: Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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