fox brush

noun

1. the tail of a fox.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fox brush¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

“Let the ping-pong tournament begin, as Comcast won’t let Fox brush off its all-cash premium offer without a fight,” Macquarie analyst Amy Yong said in a research note last week.

From Reuters

Fox′-bat, a flying-fox, a fruit-bat; Fox′-brush, the tail of a fox; Fox′-earth, a fox's burrow.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

The 'Physical basis of life' has been driven into a corner, hunted down, seized at last, and over the heads of an eager, panting, chasing generation, is triumphantly dangled this 'Scientific Fox' brush, 'Nucleated Protoplasm, the structural unit!'

From Project Gutenberg

Nay, though the pedantry of the scholar should betray a little ostentation, yet a well-conditioned mind would more easily, methinks, tolerate the fox brush of learned vanity, than the sans culotterie of a contemptuous ignorance, that assumes a merit from mutilation in the self-consoling sneer at the pompous incumbrance of tails.

From Project Gutenberg