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How to spell brush

What it means: A tool for applying paint or color.

In a sentence: I use a brush to paint a picture. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as brash or bruch.

Same family: toothbrush, hairbrush, brushing, brushed, brushes. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "brush" comes from Middle French "brosse," meaning a bunch of twigs for sweeping, which later came to mean any tool with bristles, including the kind you use for your teeth.

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