noun
hairbrush
noun
1
A brush designed for smoothing and styling hair.
"She grabbed her hairbrush before heading out the door."
verb
1
To spank someone with a hairbrush.
"The old cartoon showed the mother threatening to hairbrush the naughty child."
How to Use Hairbrush
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA brush used to detangle and style hair.
Common pairings
a wooden hairbrush
run a hairbrush through your hair
Word Forms
hairbrushed past tense, hairbrushes plural, hairbrushes singular
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Etymology
A combination of "hair" and "brush," naming a brush made for the hair.