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dandy brush
noun
- a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
dandy-brush
noun
- a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
Word History and Origins
Origin of dandy brush1
Example Sentences
Nothing but the sound of the horses shifting as we worked, Miss Maggie sneezing at the dust stirred up by the dandy brush.
Inside the barn, we shed our ponchos and, armed with a curry comb and a dandy brush, each took a horse, Cinders for me, a roan named Clover, in the next stall, for Miss Maggie.
They loved the grooming, but sometimes they were a little shy of the dandy brush when we came close to tender spots.
“I must’ve gone through a million dollars in cocaine. Really. I was addicted for 20 years,” Alger said, in between strokes with a dandy brush across a horse’s side.
She goes about picking up "straws" until "she'd have a bunch in her hand ... every little stalk bit off as neat as neat, and it like a scrubber or dandy brush you'd put to a horse."
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