hairbrush

CEFRA2

/ˈhɛəbrʌʃ/

noun

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Do you know what it’s like, Brannan, to be flogged and hairbrushed, kicked and cursed every day of your school life? I’m treated worse than a dog and nobody gives a damn—least of all the masters.

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Do you know what it’s like, Brannan, to be flogged and hairbrushed, kicked and cursed every day of your school life? I’m treated worse than a dog and nobody gives a damn—least of all the masters.
2014, Dominic Luke, Nothing Undone Remained, London: Buried River Press, page 147
Bad feeding, adolescence—always a dangerous period for the male—and the brutality and bestiality in the dormitories made life a hell on earth. An apathy settled on me. I withered. I learned nothing; I did nothing. I was kicked, hounded, caned, flogged, hairbrushed, morning, noon, and night.
1938, C. R. W. Nevinson, Paint and Prejudice, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pages 11–12

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