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currycomb

currycomb noun: a comb or brush, having rubber or plastic teeth, used to groom horses.

currycomb: a comb or brush, having rubber or plastic teeth, used to groom horses
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Noun

currycomb (plural currycombs)

  1. A comb or brush, having rubber or plastic teeth, used to groom horses.
    • One hundred currycombs […] One hundred corn horsebrushes […]1889, Annual Report of the Military Department, State of Oregon, page 99

Verb

currycomb (third-person singular simple present currycombs, present participle currycombing, simple past and past participle currycombed)

  1. (transitive) To groom using such a comb.

currycomb meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Persian

currycomb in Tamil

குரப்பம்

currycomb in Tagalog

a comb or brush used to groom horses
almohasa

currycomb in Persian

a comb or brush used to groom horses
قشو qašow

Forms of currycomb

Noun
pluralcurrycombs
alternative formcurry-comb
alternative formcurry comb
Verb
third-person singular presentcurrycombs
present participlecurrycombing
past participlecurrycombed
pastcurrycombed

Origin of currycomb

From curry + comb.

Questions about currycomb

What does currycomb mean?
Currycomb means a comb or brush, having rubber or plastic teeth, used to groom horses.
What is currycomb in Tamil?
Currycomb in Tamil is குரப்பம். See Currycomb meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is currycomb?
Currycomb can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of currycomb?
The plural of currycomb is currycombs.

Words near currycomb in the dictionary

  1. curry-muncher
  2. curry-munchers
  3. curry-queen
  4. currycel
  5. currycels
  6. currycomb
  7. currycombed
  8. currycombing
  9. currycombs
  10. curryfish
  11. curryhouse

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: currycomb (page history and authors); currycomb (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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