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🐴 A grooming brush 🐴 To brush a horse
to currycomb

to currycomb

9.1
To clean a horse's coat with a comb that has short teeth
  • verb
  • /ˈkɜːriˌkoʊm/
translation icon : cepillar con rasqueta
  • After the ride, I always currycomb my horse to remove dirt and loose hair.

Examples

  • To ensure my horse looks its best, I currycomb him every morning before the show.

  • She asked her friend to help her currycomb the horse after their long trail ride.

  • Captain Terrill, I want you to currycomb the countryside.

    The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

  • When I came home, weary of currycombing the platitudes of politicians, she would become my scribe, writing out my sketches and observations as I spoke aloud.

    The Riddle (2007)

Synonyms

to curry
vsto currycomb
1 8.2

To brush an animal's coat to make it clean and shiny

is specifically about cleaning a horse with a short-toothed brush
to curried
vsto currycomb
8.5

To groom an animal by brushing it with a currycomb

is to clean a horse using that short-toothed brush

How Thorough

to scrub
55 1.0
to currycomb
9.1
to groom
40 2.3

Surface Forms

currycomb infinitive
currycombed past
currycombed past participle
currycombing present participle
currycombs third person singular

Etymology

Currycomb (verb) comes from the tool name: curry 'to groom' plus comb, so to currycomb someone is simply to clean a horse with that toothed brush to remove dirt and loose hair from its coat.