hairbrush

plural hairbrushes · alternative hair-brush · alternative hair brush

1. A brush used in hair care for brushing, tidying, and detangling hair

present singular third person hairbrushes · participle present hairbrushing · participle past hairbrushed · past hairbrushed · alternative hair-brush · alternative hair brush

1. transitiveTo spank with a hairbrush.

   Do you know what it’s like, Brannan, to be flogged and hairbrushed, kicked and cursed every day of your school life? I’m treated worse than a dog and nobody gives a damn—least of all the masters.

   2014, Dominic Luke, Nothing Undone Remained, London: Buried River Press, page 147

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   Bad feeding, adolescence—always a dangerous period for the male—and the brutality and bestiality in the dormitories made life a hell on earth. An apathy settled on me. I withered. I learned nothing; I did nothing. I was kicked, hounded, caned, flogged, hairbrushed, morning, noon, and night.

   1938, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paint and Prejudice, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pages 11–12