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brush-off

brush-off noun: an abrupt rebuff, a snub or curt rejection, a disdainful dismissal.

Noun

brush-off (plural brush-offs)

  1. An abrupt rebuff, a snub or curt rejection, a disdainful dismissal.
    • A halfhearted “thank you” may be a brush-off.
    • For the first time, we in the SF ghetto are beginning to get criticism – not brush-offs from literary snobs.

brush-off meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

brush-off in Tamil

கண்டனப்புறக்கணிப்பு

brush-off in Malayalam

rejection, refusal, rebuff
നിരാകരണം, നിരസനം, നിരാസം, നിഷേധം, ക്ഷേപണം, തിരസ്കരണം

Forms of brush-off

pluralbrush-offs
alternative formbrushoff

Origin of brush-off

Deverbal from brush off.

Words formed from brush-off

Phrases with brush-off

Questions about brush-off

What does brush-off mean?
Brush-off means an abrupt rebuff, a snub or curt rejection, a disdainful dismissal.
What is brush-off in Tamil?
Brush-off in Tamil is கண்டனப்புறக்கணிப்பு. See Brush-off meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brush-off?
Brush-off is a noun.
What is the plural of brush-off?
The plural of brush-off is brush-offs.

Words near brush-off in the dictionary

  1. brush-footed butterflies
  2. brush-footed butterfly
  3. brush-furred mice
  4. brush-furred mouse
  5. brush-making
  6. brush-off
  7. brush-offs
  8. brush-pen
  9. brush-pens
  10. brush-tailed
  11. brush-tailed mice

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brush-off (page history and authors); brush-off (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brush-off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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