brush-off

1. 1.

   a curt or disdainful rejection

   Broaderrejection

Questions about brush-off

What does brush-off mean?

brush-off means "a curt or disdainful rejection".

How many syllables are in brush-off?

brush-off has 2 syllables and divides as bru-sh-off under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is brush-off a common word?

brush-off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.