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brush⋅y

1  [bruhsh-ee]
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–adjective, brush⋅i⋅er, brush⋅i⋅est.
resembling a brush, esp. in roughness or shagginess.
Origin:
1680–90; brush 1 + -y 1

brush⋅y

2  [bruhsh-ee]
–adjective, brush⋅i⋅er, brush⋅i⋅est.
covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
Origin:
1650–60; brush 2 + -y 1

Related forms:
brush⋅i⋅ness, noun
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brush 1   (brŭsh)   
n.  

    1. A device consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, or painting.

    2. The act of using this device.

  2. A light touch in passing; a graze.

  3. An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous: a brush with the law; a brush with death.

  4. A bushy tail: the brush of a fox.

  5. A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.

  6. A snub; a brushoff.

v.   brushed, brush·ing, brush·es

v.   tr.

    1. To clean, polish, or groom with a brush.

    2. To apply with or as if with motions of a brush.

    3. To remove with or as if with motions of a brush.

  2. To dismiss abruptly or curtly: brushed the matter aside; brushed an old friend off.

  3. To touch lightly in passing; graze against.

v.   intr.

  1. To use or apply a brush.

  2. To move past something so as to touch it lightly.

Phrasal Verb(s):
brush back Baseball To force (a batter) to move away from the plate by throwing an inside pitch.
brush up

  1. To refresh one's memory.

  2. To renew a skill.


[Middle English brusshe, from Old French brosse, brushwood, brush; see brush2.]
brush'er n., brush'y adj.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to make light contact with something in passing: Her arm brushed mine. I flicked the paper with my finger. The arrow glanced off the tree. The knife blade grazed the countertop. A taxi shaved the curb. The oar skims the pond's surface.
brush 2   (brŭsh)   
n.  

    1. A dense growth of bushes or shrubs.

    2. Land covered by such a growth.

  2. Cut or broken branches.


[Middle English brusshe, from Old French brosse, brushwood, from Vulgar Latin *bruscia, perhaps from Latin bruscum, knot on a maple.]
brush'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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