Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being brushy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
brushy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I was totally waiting for him to slip and tumble down a couple of stairs before falling to his wire-brushiness death.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - A little hairy dude for your enjoyment… 2008
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By this time, the roughness of Lievens's earlier work -- the brushiness of the old woman reading -- has disappeared, although he employs different touches for different motifs: delicate strokes for hair and flesh, for example, and impasto for the worn pages of much-handled books.
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His surfaces had something in common with the brushiness of the American painter Mark Rothko, who was a close friend, but Mr. Scott's were thicker and more actively worked.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2010
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His surfaces had something in common with the brushiness of the American painter Mark Rothko, who was a close friend, but Mr. Scott's were thicker and more actively worked.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2010
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