brush

• n. brush; paintbrush; brush; quarrel; effective conflict with someone; bushland; undergrowth; foxtail.
• vt.ブラシをかける；絵を描く；
• ブラシをかける；かすめる；かすめる；（通り過ぎるように）軽く触れる

語源的には、剛毛、剛毛、ほうき、ブーゲンビリア、ほうきと同じ。潅木の枝から作られたブラシを指す。

brush

brush: [14] It is not clear whether brush for sweeping and brush as in brushwood are the same word, although both appeared in the language at about the same time, from a French source. Brush ‘broken branches’ comes from brousse, the Anglo-Norman version of Old French broce, which goes back to an unrecorded Vulgar Latin *bruscia. Brush for sweeping, on the other hand, comes from Old French broisse or brosse.

It is tempting to conclude that this is a variant of Old French broce, particularly in view of the plausible semantic link that brushwood (cut twigs, etc) bundled together and tied to a handle makes a serviceable brush (that is how broom came to mean ‘brush’). The verb brush ‘move fast or heedlessly’ comes from Old French brosser ‘dash through undergrowth’, a derivative of broce; its frequent modern connotation of ‘touching in passing’ comes from the other brush.

brush (v.1)

late 15c., "to clean or rub (clothing) with a brush," also (mid-15c.) "to beat with a brush," from brush (n.1). Related: Brushed; brushing. To brush off someone or something, "rebuff, dismiss," is from 1941.

brush (n.1)

"dust-sweeper, a brush for sweeping," late 14c., also, c. 1400, "brushwood, brushes;" from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse) "a brush" (13c.), perhaps from Vulgar Latin *bruscia "a bunch of new shoots" (used to sweep away dust), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz "underbrush."

brush (n.2)

"shrubbery," early 14c., from Anglo-French bruce "brushwood," Old North French broche, Old French broce "bush, thicket, undergrowth" (12c., Modern French brosse), from Gallo-Roman *brocia, perhaps from *brucus "heather," or possibly from the same source as brush (n.1).

brush (v.2)

"move briskly" especially past or against something or someone, 1670s, from earlier sense (c. 1400) "to hasten, rush," probably from brush (n.2), on the notion of a horse, etc., passing through dense undergrowth (compare Old French brosser "travel (through woods)," and Middle English noun brush "charge, onslaught, encounter," mid-14c.), but brush (n.1) probably has contributed something to it as well. Related: Brushed; brushing.

1. I rounded a bend where the trees and brush grew thickly.

私は林の茂った曲を迂回した。

2.When it 's dry， brush the hair using a soft，nylon baby brush .

髪が乾いたら、柔らかい赤ちゃん用ナイロンヘアブラシで髪を梳きます。

3. Brush your teeth after each meal and floss daily.

食後に歯を磨き、毎日歯の線を使って歯の隙間をきれいにしなければならない。

4.The corporation is fighting to survive its second brush with bankruptcy.

会社は、自身が遭遇した2度目の倒産危機から抜け出すために努力している。

5.I ran the brush through my hair and dashed out.

ブラシで髪をブラシし、飛び出した。