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Toothbrush   /tˈuθbrəʃ/   Listen
Toothbrush

noun
1.
Small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth.
2.
Slang for a mustache.  Synonym: soup-strainer.



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"Toothbrush" Quotes from Famous Books



... "what are we to do—I haven't even a night-suit of pyjamas. I haven't even a toothbrush. No hotel will ...
— The Man Who Lost Himself • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... before Uncle Ed arrived were busy indeed. We had to gather together the necessary provisions and supplies. Our personal outfits were very simple. Each member supplied himself with a change of underwear, a bathing suit, a blanket and a toothbrush. A single comb and brush served for the entire society, and was used on Sundays, the only day we really dressed up. All the rest of the time we lived in our bathing suits, except, of course, on cold rainy days. ...
— The Scientific American Boy - The Camp at Willow Clump Island • A. Russell Bond

... V would never have thought of such a thing as riding Jake. She would have considered it as much as her life was worth to put her saddle on him without first asking Bill. Once she had asked Bill, and Bill had looked as if she had asked for his toothbrush; shocked, incredulous, as though he could not believe his ears. "Well, I should sa-ay not!" Bill had replied when she had made it plain that she ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower

... cutting the other side so short as to make something like a match to the singed-off side where he was burnt that I made him able to go out when he got better. Soldiers do wear their hair pretty close, but his head looked quite indecent; and, as for his starshers, they're like a bit o' black toothbrush worn stumpy." ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn

... caravanserai steps, stable-roof, and other conspicuous soul-inspiring places, announces the approach of bedtime. My room is actually found to contain a towel and an old tooth-brush; the towel has evidently not been laundried for some time and a public toothbrush is hardly a joy-inspiring object to contemplate; nevertheless they are evidences that the proprietor of the caravanserai is possessed of vague, shadowy ideas of a Ferenghi's requirements. After a person has dried his face with the slanting sunbeams of early ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens


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