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A stick with teeth that argues with your hair every morning and sometimes wins.
means A brush with bristles designed for grooming, detangling, or styling hair.
from A straightforward compound of 'hair' and 'brush' — brush itself comes from Old French 'broisse/brosse,' originally referring to brushwood or twigs bundled together for sweeping, scrubbing, or grooming. Early brushes really were just bundles of twigs or bristles bound to a handle, so the word carries the ghost of a thicket in it. The specific pairing with 'hair' is simply English doing what it does best: naming a tool by what it's for.
- boar bristle
- distributes scalp oil down the hair shaft
- static fix
- metal pins cause more frizz than nylon ones
- origin
- mass-produced only after plastic got cheap, 1900s
- wet hair warning
- brushing wet strands snaps them, use a comb