brush – English noun declension

English noun forms of brush

Noun: brush
Singularbrush
Pluralbrushes

Sample Sentences

  • She gave her hair a quick brush.
  • as leaves
  • Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush
  • Fell from their boughs [c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 92:]
  • If there was a sharp point nearby, electricity would stream from it in a luminous brush, a little corposant, and one could blow out candles with the outstreaming “electric wind,” or even get this to turn a little rotor on its pivot. [2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:]
  • We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck. [1906, Jack London, Before Adam, chapter 12]
  • One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually. [2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:]
  • brush with death
  • He has had brushes with communism from time to time.
  • The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison. [2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'”, in The Guardian:]
  • He fell seriously ill at 21 with pneumonia and doctors feared for his life. Three cysts were found on his right lung and part of it was removed in a brutal operation. The brush with death strengthened his determination to become a priest and he entered a Jesuit seminary soon afterwards. [2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:]
  • They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • We terrified the mare and foal;
  • The fox stood still and far too bold -
  • So we strung him up, brush neatly folded
  • Mayhem, maybe. [1988, “Mayhem Maybe”, in Ian Anderson (music), 20 Years of Jethro Tull, performed by Jethro Tull:]
  • 1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage (originally published in Cornhill Magazine
  • Mark and Lord Lufton had been boys together, and his lordship knew that Mark in his heart would enjoy a brush across the country quite as well as he himself.
  • […] got into a brush with a fast British cutter as they approached Cowes […] [1950, Think, volumes 16-17, page 34:]
  • Your bitmap image appears along the painted stroke. If you'd like to permanently create a custom sprite brush, it's fairly easy to adapt an existing MEL file[…]. [2007, Lee Lanier, Maya Professional Tips and Techniques, page 12:]
  • to download brushes for Photoshop

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
4. Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís
5. Proto-Germanic *burstiz
6. Frankish *burstibor.
7. Vulgar Latin *brustia
8. Old French broissebor.
9. Middle English brusshe
10. English brush
11. From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusgo-. See: Middle English Nouns 'brusshe', French Nouns 'brosse'.

Verbs referencing "brush"

Catalan Nouns bri, French Nouns brin, Irish Nouns bruis, Spanish Nouns brocha, Zulu Nouns ibhulashi, Icelandic Nouns brúskur, Asturian Nouns brenca, Spanish Nouns brenca.