furbish

Questions about furbish

What does furbish mean?

furbish means "polish and make shiny".

How many syllables are in furbish?

furbish has 2 syllables: fur-bish. The stress falls on "fur". In IPA it is /ˈfɝbɪʃ/.

What is another word for furbish?

Close synonyms include buff, burnish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is furbish a common word?

furbish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with furbish?

1 word rhymes with furbish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.