1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see brush, off To remove something with a brush.
2. (idiomatic) To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855 ↗:

     Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head.

3. (dated) To depart with a sweeping motion.

   • Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind.

• Russian: смести́

• French: ignorer, regarder de haut
• German: abbügeln
• Russian: отмести́

brush off (plural brush offs)

1. Alternative spelling of brush-off