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English
Etymology
From nail + brush.
Pronunciation
Noun
nailbrush (plural nailbrushes)
- A small brush, with firm bristles, used to clean the fingernails or to scrub the hands.
2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 303: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.
Translations
a small brush to clean the fingernails
Verb
nailbrush (third-person singular simple present nailbrushes, present participle nailbrushing, simple past and past participle nailbrushed)
- (transitive) To scrub with a nailbrush.