Sekirov Dictionary

brush off

verb 2
brush-off noun 1
forms 5

verb2

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To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant.
- Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. — 1960
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(old-fashioned) To depart with a sweeping motion; to rush away.
- Thus, seizing his hat, he brush’d off like the wind, / And the Porter and Eatables follow’d behind. — 1765

brush-off noun1

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An abrupt rebuff, a snub or curt rejection, a disdainful dismissal.
- A halfhearted “thank you” may be a brush-off.
- For the first time, we in the SF ghetto are beginning to get criticism – not brush-offs from literary snobs.

forms

brushed off · brushing off · brushes off · brush offs · brush-offs

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