toothbrush

1. 1.

   small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth

   Broaderbrushtoiletry

   Narrowerelectric toothbrush
2. 2.

   slang for a mustache

   Synonymssoup-strainer

   Broadermustache

   slang

Other forms of toothbrush

plural

toothbrushes·

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 toothbrush

What does toothbrush mean?

toothbrush means "small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in toothbrush?

toothbrush has 2 syllables: tooth-brush. The stress falls on "tooth". In IPA it is /ˈtuθbɹəʃ/.

What is another word for toothbrush?

Close synonyms include soup-strainer. 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 toothbrush a common word?

toothbrush is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.