brushful

English

Etymology

brush +‎ -ful

Noun

brushful (plural brushfuls or brushesful)

1. A sufficient quantity to fill the bristles of a brush.
   • 1927 February 7, “If you are hard to shave: Try this New Way!”, in Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, volume IX, number 6, page 4:

     Fougère Royale (Royal Fern) Shaving Cream absorbs brushesful of water and whips up a close, fine-textured, beard-softening lather with the refreshing odor of Royal Fern.

   • 1942, Carl Rousseau Havighorst, Simplified Show Card Writing‎^[1], Butterick Company, page 13:

     Dip your brush into the paint and transfer two or three brushesful onto the palette.

   • 1977, Jack Couffer, Mike Couffer, Canyon Summer‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 61:

     Finally, remembering their patience with the fenced sycamore, I resolved to give the cottonwood trunk a few brushesful every few months just on principle.

   • 2009 May 10, Murray Whyte, “Evolution of a street art rebel”, in Toronto Star‎^[3]:

     Legs dangle and pinwheel in the light morning breeze and the head sags over as Dan Bergeron slops a thick, opaque brushful of wheat paste across the chest, pinning it to the ragged brick.