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Friar Rush
A house-spirit, sent from the infernal regions in the
seventeenth century to keep the monks and friars in the same state of
wickedness they were then in. The legends of this roysterer are of
German origin. (Brüder Rausch, brother Tipple.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Friar Rush from Infoplease:
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