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brushing

verbnounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈbɹʌʃ.ɪŋ//

An instance of brushing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of brushpresent participle and gerund of brush

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of brushing.

    Give your shoes a brushing to get the mud off.

  2. 2

    Material removed by brushing.

  3. 3

    A fraudulent technique in which an online seller sends out fake orders (such as empty boxes) and contributes positive reviews about those orders, ostensibly from the recipient.

adjective

  1. 1

    datedBrisk; light.

    a brushing gallop

Forms

plural
brushings
comparative
more brushing
superlative
most brushing
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).