† frubbishv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To furbish or polish by rubbing.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > polishing > polish [verb (transitive)]
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1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Mii/2 To Frubbish, fricando polire.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 466 When it is well scoured and clensed with sand, and knowne by the brightnesse and lustre thereof that it hath bin sufficiently frobished and purified.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bb3/1 I'le make you young againe, beleeve that Lady. I will so frubbish you.
Derivatives
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > polishing > [noun] > one who
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a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ciiiiv The frubyssher hath my sworde.
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