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Brushed
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noun
1.
an implement consisting of bristles, hair, or the like, set in or attached to a handle, used for painting, cleaning, polishing, grooming, etc.
2.
one of a pair of devices consisting of long, thin handles with wire bristles attached, used in jazz or dance bands for keeping a soft, rhythmic beat on the trap drums or the cymbals.
3.
the bushy tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
4.
Electricity.
a.
a conductor, often made of carbon or copper or a combination of the two, serving to maintain electric contact between stationary and moving parts of a machine, generator, or other apparatus.
5.
EXPANDa feathery or hairy tuft or tassel, as on the tip of a kernel of grain or on a man's hat.
6.
an act or instance of brushing; application of a brush.
7.
a light, stroking touch.
8.
a brief encounter: He has already had one brush with the law.
9.
COLLAPSEa close approach, especially to something undesirable or harmful: a brush with disaster.
verb (used with object)
10.
to sweep, paint, clean, polish, etc., with a brush.
11.
to touch lightly in passing; pass lightly over: His lips brushed her ear.
12.
to remove by brushing or by lightly passing over: His hand brushed a speck of lint from his coat.
verb (used without object)
Verb phrases13.
to move or skim with a slight contact.
14.
brush aside, to disregard; ignore: Our complaints were simply brushed aside.
15.
brush off, to rebuff; send away: She had never been brushed off so rudely before.
16.
Idiomsbrush up on, to revive, review, or resume (studies, a skill, etc.): She's thinking of brushing up on her tennis. Also, brush up.
17.
get the brush, to be rejected or rebuffed: She greeted Jim effusively, but I got the brush.
18.
give the brush, to ignore, rebuff, etc.: If you're still angry with him, give him the brush.
Origin:
1350–1400; (noun) Middle English brusshe, probably to be identified with brush2, if orig. sense was implement made from twigs, etc., culled from brushwood; (v.) Middle English brushen to hasten, rush, probably < Old French brosser to travel (through brush), verbal derivative of broce (see brush2)
1350–1400; (noun) Middle English brusshe, probably to be identified with brush2, if orig. sense was implement made from twigs, etc., culled from brushwood; (v.) Middle English brushen to hasten, rush, probably < Old French brosser to travel (through brush), verbal derivative of broce (see brush2)
Related forms
brush·a·ble, adjective
brush·er, noun
brush·like, adjective
un·brush·a·ble, adjective
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Word Origin & History
brush
"shrubbery," early 14c., from Anglo-Fr. bruce "brushwood," O.N.Fr. broche, O.Fr. broce "bush, thicket, undergrowth" (12c., Mod.Fr. brosse), from Gallo-Romance *brocia, perhaps from *brucus "heather," or possibly from the same source as brush (1). The verb meaning "to move
EXPAND briskly" especially past or against something or someone (1670s) probably belongs here, on the notion of a horse, etc., passing through dense undergrowth, but brush (1) probably has contributed something to it as well.
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