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nailbrushes

nailbrushes is the plural of nailbrush.

nailbrushes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nailbrush.

Meaning of nailbrush

Noun

nailbrush (plural nailbrushes)

  1. A small brush, with firm bristles, used to clean the fingernails or to scrub the hands.
    • Rupert Sheffield, scrubbing John's blood from his hands with a nailbrush and hospital soap, swore that this was the last time [...] that he would have to do this.2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 303

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Questions about nailbrushes

What is nailbrushes the plural of?
Nailbrushes is the plural of nailbrush.

Words near nailbrushes in the dictionary

  1. nailbombs
  2. nailbourne
  3. nailbournes
  4. nailbrush
  5. nailbrushed
  6. nailbrushes
  7. nailbrushing
  8. nailcare
  9. nailclipper
  10. nailclippers
  11. nailclipping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nailbrushes (page history and authors); nailbrush (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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