Brush Off

Definition: Brush Off

Brush Off

Verb

1. Bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances".

2. Reject outright and bluntly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Brush Off

Ejection

Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.

Crosswords: Brush Off

I'm getting the brush off for Captain Peroxide! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

You're not getting the brush off. Are you just going to come here and go all Dawson on me every time I have a boyfriend? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Factoring Small Receivables: How to Make Money in Little Deals the Big Guys Brush Off (reference)

• If You're Having A Crummy Day ... Brush Off the Crumbs! (reference)

• Mental Shielding to Brush Off Hostility/Book and Cassette (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, put off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, wean, whiffle), hiqem (pose, pretend, work off), heq me furçë (polish), dal (appear, arise, beetle, come into being, come out, come up, creep out, develop, egress, emerge, erupt, exhaust, exit, flow out, get out, get out of, go out, leave, let out, open, run out, sprout, stand out, stick up, turn out, turn up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏رفض نهائي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

изчетквам (brush, brush away, brush up), измитам се, избягвам бързо (whip out). (various references)

Czech

smést (throw down), odmítnutí (adamant, denial, nay, rebuff, refusal, rejection, repulse), odbytí (rebuff, snub), odbýt (dismiss, fob, gloss over, polish off, post away, put off, rattle, repel, snub), ignorovat (cold shoulder, ignore, ostracize, snub). (various references)

Finnish

harjata pois. (various references)

French

balayer (broom, brush). (various references)

German

abbürsten (brush away, brush down, dust down, to brush off). (various references)

Greek 

αποπέμπω (cashier, deport, dismiss). (various references)

Hungarian

leráz magáról (to brush off, to shuffle off, to work off), kerek elutasítás. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

払い落とす (to brush off, to shake off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はらいおとす (to brush off, to shake off). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushbray offay

Romanian

refuz categoric (flat denial), da afarã (boot out, boot round, cashier, cast up, chuck out, depose, discharge, dismiss, drop, ejaculate, expel, fire, give notice, kick out, order out, oust, pack off, put out, sack, throw out). (various references)

Russian 

счищать (brush away). (various references)

Scottish

sad (aught, dust shaken from anything by beating, or brush off dust, smart blow, thump). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otarasiti se (free, get rid, jettison, offload, palm off, rid), dići ruke od nečega. (various references)

Spanish

quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, clear away, clear out, come off, encroach on, excise, get away, get off, get out, give, iron out, kill, knock off, knock out, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pick off, pinch, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw away, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), despedida brusca. (various references)

Swedish

borsta av (clean down). (various references)

Turkish

başından atmak (get rid of, shunt, throw off), savmak (dismiss, drive away, get rid of, head off, stave off, stop), dikkate almamak (be oblivious to, brush away, leave out of account, loose sight of, pay no attention, reckon without, skate over, take no account of). (various references)

Turkmen 

silkmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

відмова (abandonment, abjuration, denegation, denial, disallowance, disclaimer, malfunction, nay, nay-say, negative, no, recession, refusal, relinquishment, repulse, surrender, waiver), зчищати (brush away, clean down, deterge, scrape off), змахувати (flick, knock off, whisk). (various references)

Misspellings

"Brush Off" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brushoff. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: brushoff.

-1 letter: ruboffs.

-2 letters: buffos, ruboff, shroff.

-3 letters: boffs, brush, buffo, buffs, buhrs, forbs, fours, frosh, hours, huffs, ruffs, shrub.

-4 letters: boff, bosh, bros, buff, buhr, burs, bush, fobs, forb, four, fubs, furs, hobs, hour, hubs, huff, offs, orbs, ours, rhos, rhus, robs, rubs, ruff, rush, sorb, sour, surf, urbs.

-5 letters: bos, bro, bur, bus, fob, foh.

+1 letter: brushoffs.

+4 letters: shuffleboard.

+5 letters: shuffleboards.