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  1. brush by love

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  1. v. idiomatic To walk past another person, touching them slightly, normally by accident, and ignoring them.

Examples

  • “There was Patxi, laboring diligently to clear brush by hand.”

    Cube Route

  • “In a second, in less time than it takes me to tell you, the ayah had blown out the lights so as to secure that one spot of darkness amid my brilliantly lighted house, and I felt her muslin drapery brush by me as she passed, only pausing to whisper in my ear,”

    A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters

  • “Thorns, please let me pass," he said, and the thorns turned soft so he could brush by them harmlessly.”

    Pet Peeve

  • “Jody moved down Columbus Avenue with long, runway-model strides, feeling the windblown fog brush by her like the chill ghosts of rejected suitors.”

    You Suck

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. fitch
  2. shrug off
  3. hairbrush
  4. clothesbrush
  5. paintbrush
  6. toothbrush
  7. underbrush
  8. bottlebrush
  9. nailbrush
  10. pademelon
  11. scrubber
  12. undergrowth
  13. underwood
  14. rigger
  15. rigger brush
  16. sable brush
  17. sable's hair pencil
  18. scrub brush
  19. scrubbing brush
  20. shaving brush
  21. sable
  22. bristle brush
  23. graze
  24. scrub
  25. talegalla
  26. vultern
  27. brush
  28. scopa
  29. joubert disk
  30. skunk-bush
  31. talegallus
  32. underbush
  33. brushed
  34. muscariform
  35. sage-bush
  36. sagewood
  37. brush-harrow
  38. brush-holder
  39. bud-sage
  40. brush-ore
  41. brushy
  42. haidinger's brushes
  43. lining-brush
  44. glance
  45. skim
  46. flick
  47. shave
  48. whisk
  49. badger
  1. dauber
  2. encounter
  3. mare's-tail
  4. pencil
  5. sarothrum
  6. dog
  7. mahlstick
  8. mattress
  9. hat-brush
  10. lure
  11. mascara
  12. lorikeet
  13. dust
  14. dustbrush
  15. limn
  16. maleo
  17. dipping
  18. fire-brush
  19. commutator
  20. cripple
  21. crumb brush
  22. dandy brush
  23. hair pencil
  24. handling
  25. kneebrush
  26. groomer
  27. camel's-hair pencil
  28. grainer
  29. kangaroo
  30. fagot-drain
  31. flesh-glove
  32. fly-flick
  33. furnisher
  34. grattage
  35. hearth-brush
  36. hyssop
  37. kid-brush
  38. lowan
  39. ozonator
  40. pitch-mop
  41. quinine-bush
  42. scratch
  43. shade-frame
  44. sifter
  45. spawning-brush
  46. splatter-work
  47. strigilation
  48. swamp
  49. telodendrion
  1. wormwood-sage
  2. talegallinæ
  3. tar-brush
  4. thorn-house
  5. tube-brush
  6. tube-cleaner
  7. tumbler-brush
  8. warrin
  9. wattle-turkey
  10. wisp
  11. beggar's lice
  12. besom
  13. black
  14. blender
  15. brushwork
  16. brushiness
  17. brushing
  18. brush wheel
  19. brushwood
  20. jungle fowl
  21. megacephalon
  22. mystax
  23. overgrainer
  24. pail-brush
  25. pencil-tree
  26. penicil
  27. pope's-head
  28. putois
  29. sand-fence
  30. sash-tool
  31. satin-finish
  32. satining
  33. satining-machine
  34. scopate
  35. scopiform
  36. scrubbing
  37. scrubbing-brush
  38. shaving-brush
  39. shoe-brush
  40. sneak-boat
  41. softener
  42. spray-drain
  43. sprinkled
  44. stippled
  45. stippler
  46. stippling
  47. stock-brush
  48. stomach-brush
  49. street-orderly
  1. stuffing-brush
  2. banister
  3. bee-brush
  4. breeze
  5. brusher
  6. brush-grain
  7. bush-scythe
  8. clearer-brush
  9. contact-block
  10. penicillate
  11. showId
  12. brushfire
  13. boondocks
  14. billhook
  15. Artemisia
  16. asperges
  17. aspergill
  18. aspersorium
  19. assart land
  20. friction
  21. aspergilliform
  22. atherure
  23. aurilave
  24. bettong
  25. black-brush
  26. broom-brush
  27. brushful
  28. brush-hat
  29. brushlet
  30. brushman
  31. brushment
  32. brush-plow
  33. brush turkey
  34. bush-hook
  35. carpet-broom
  36. chowry
  37. comb-brash
  38. crumb-brush
  39. crumb-knife
  40. distemper-brush
  41. ear-brush
  42. eye-dotter
  43. file-cleaner
  44. finger-brush
  45. fire-bavin
  46. fitch-brush
  47. flesh-brush
  48. flue-brush
  49. fly-brush
  1. gin-wheel
  2. googwaruck
  3. guard-brush
  4. harpoon-shuttle
  5. lather
  6. laund
  7. limning
  8. deadfall
  9. duster
  10. upstroke
  11. upsweep
  12. line
  13. fright
  14. stick
  15. whiskbroom
  16. wickiup
  17. scrub jay
  18. dipsy-doodle
  19. broad-brush
  20. outshoot
  21. alectura
  22. bottle brush
  23. to brush aside
  24. to brush away
  25. to brush up
  26. bush
  27. curry
  28. discharge
  29. electrical brush
  30. feather duster
  31. foxtail
  32. tirolean
  33. Tyrolean
  34. unimproved
  35. whisk broom
  36. whisk off
  37. wikiup
  38. ocelot
  39. maulstick
  40. aspergillum
  41. wake-up call
  42. brush cut
  43. push broom
  44. pointillism
  45. sweep
  46. kiss
  47. paint
  48. scratchbrush
  49. scouring
  1. scrub bird

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