brush
2
8.1
- noun
- /brʌʃ/
:
cola espesa
- I found some grooming hairs in his tail brush.
- a brush tail
Examples
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His head was topped with a short, stiff brush of black hair lacking any gray.
Fiction book (1993) -
As the fox sprinted away, its bright red brush was a blur against the green foliage.
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Using his tail for a brush, Micawber painted a beautiful picture unlike any he had ever seen.
Academic text (2008) -
The slope above grew thick with sage, and he broke off a good bushy stem to use as a brush for his tracks.
Fiction book (1998) -
His fur had not yet filled into its rusty adult coat, so his brush and neck-ruff were thin and spiky, dun-colored.
Fiction book (2001) -
The fox's bushy brush waved behind him as he darted through the forest.
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The artist was inspired by the sight of a fox with a magnificent, bushy brush tail.
Idioms
- Informal
2
7.2
Describe people or things in very general ways that ignore important details
- Informal
1
8.7
Unfairly judge a whole group because of one person's actions
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.7
A brush with short, stiff hairs for cleaning or painting rough surfaces
- Specialized
1
7.0
A painting tool with soft sable hairs that makes fine, flexible points
- Specialized
1
5.1
A way of painting that uses very little paint to make a rough, scratchy texture
1
1.6
A small brush that you use to put cream or soap on your face before using a razor
- Specialized
A faint blue electric glow with many thin light rays that appears when high voltage makes a spark
- Australian
A small or medium animal like a kangaroo that lives in forests and thick bushes
- Australian
A large black bird that builds big nesting mounds in the woods of Australia and New Guinea
- Specialized
A medium to large butterfly with bright wings and small front legs not used for walking
- Specialized
A large animal with sharp spines and a brush of stiff hairs at the end of its tail
- Australian
A small animal from Australia and New Guinea that lives in trees and has a pouch and a bushy tail
- Specialized
A rodent with a brush of stiff, bead-like hairs at the tip of its tail
- US
A spreading evergreen shrub with small flowers that grows on dry hills in the southwestern United States
- US
A shrub with thin hairy branches and bright yellow flowers that smells nice and grows on western plains
- Specialized
A long thin paint brush used for painting very fine lines like the ropes on a ship
A tree from Mexico and Guatemala with dense hairy flowers that look like brushes at branch ends
How Bushy
8
4.9
2
8.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word brush also came to mean a bushy tail because a fox's tail looks like a small 'brush' or tuft of hair, so the brush is the thick, bushy part of an animal's tail.