shoebrush

[ shoo-bruhsh ]

noun

1. a brush used in polishing shoes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shoebrush¹

First recorded in 1765–75; shoe + brush ¹

Example Sentences

Andrew Sweeney, 6ft5in and with a beard thick as a shoebrush, puts on a tattered shirt splattered with red and a fabric bag with eye-holes over his head.

From The Guardian

The hard little attorney with the shoebrush mustache continued to make the best Republican speeches U. S. citizens have heard in many a day, continued also to be allotted the No. 2 slot, at most, by professional GOP ticket makers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet if he openly pocketed a shoebrush and cloth, how explain this to the ever-incredulous Snorky?

From Project Gutenberg

HE recovered the shoebrush from under the window of Tabby, the young assistant house-master, and tucking it into his pocket, skirted the outer limits of the school, dodged behind a fence, and creeping on all-fours, made a wide detour via the pond and rejoined the high road to Trenton which lay five dusty miles away.

From Project Gutenberg

The other, who was little and round-shouldered, with a bull neck and bushy black whiskers, just like a shoebrush stuck to each cheek of his head, as if he had been a travelling agent for Macassar, had on a low-crowned, plated beaver hat, with the end of a peacock’s feather, stuck in the band; a long-tailed old black coat, as brown as a berry, and as bare as my loof, to say nothing of being out at both elbows. 

From Project Gutenberg