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shoebrush

[shoo-bruhsh]
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noun
  1. a brush used in polishing shoes.
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Origin of shoebrush

First recorded in 1765–75; shoe + brush1
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Examples from the Web for shoebrush

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  • The man with the shoebrush hair and the rolls of fat at the back of his neck?

    Simon the Jester

    William J. Locke

  • With his moustache en croc, and his shoebrush hair, I have rarely beheld a more sensual-looking desperado.

    Simon the Jester

    William J. Locke

  • Yet if he openly pocketed a shoebrush and cloth, how explain this to the ever-incredulous Snorky?

    Skippy Bedelle

    Owen Johnson

  • If I comprehend a shoebrush under the class mammal, it does not thereupon become a milk-giver.