hairbrush

1. 1.

   a brush used to groom a person's hair

   Broaderbrush

Other forms of hairbrush

plural

hairbrushes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hairbrush

What does hairbrush mean?

hairbrush means "a brush used to groom a person's hair".

How many syllables are in hairbrush?

hairbrush has 2 syllables and divides as hair-brush 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.