dandy brush

noun

1. a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.

dandy-brush

noun

1. a stiff brush used for grooming a horse

Word History and Origins

Origin of dandy brush¹

First recorded in 1835–45

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.

From Literature

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.

From Literature

They loved the grooming, but sometimes they were a little shy of the dandy brush when we came close to tender spots.

From Literature

“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.

From Washington Post

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."

From Project Gutenberg