English

flybrush

From fly + brush.

A compound of fly + brush

Proto-Indo-European *plew- ‘to fly, flow, run’

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Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ ‘flying insect, fly’

Proto-West Germanic *fleugā ‘fly’

Old English flēge ‘a fly’

Middle English fflye

English fly

Frankish *bursti

Vulgar Latin *brustia

Old French broisse

Middle English brusshe

English brush

Today it means

noun Synonym of flywhisk.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / flybrush