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brush offs

brush offs is the plural of brush off.

Meaning of brush off

Verb

brush off (third-person singular simple present brushes off, present participle brushing off, simple past and past participle brushed off)

  1. (idiomatic) To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant.
    • Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    shrug off
  2. (dated) To depart with a sweeping motion; to rush away.
    • Thus, ſeizing his hat, he bruſh’d off like the wind, / And the Porter and Eatables follow’d behind.1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison, a Poetical Epistle to Lord Clare, Dublin: […] W. Whitestone, […], published 1776, →OCLC, page 8
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brush, off. To remove something with a brush.

Questions about brush offs

What is brush offs the plural of?
Brush offs is the plural of brush off.

Words near brush offs in the dictionary

  1. brush fires
  2. brush head
  3. brush hook
  4. brush hooks
  5. brush off
  6. brush offs
  7. brush one's teeth
  8. brush out
  9. brush over
  10. brush past
  11. brush pen

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