nailbrush

IPA: nˈeɪɫbrʌʃ

A small brush, with firm bristles, used to clean the fingernails or to scrub the hands.

Examples of "nailbrush" in Sentences

Or stolen the missing nailbrush in the upstairs loo? '
His wiry, bony hands ignore a nailbrush and the luxury of lemon.
To keep them clean, the nailbrush and soap and water should be used once or oftener daily, as circumstances demand.
Clive returned from the washroom where he'd spent a quarter of an hour scraping at the coal-dust with the nailbrush.
The nails should have a vigorous rubbing with a good nailbrush in the morning before your meals and before you go to bed at night.
In the soft light his hands glow pink from the half-hour hot-water-and-nailbrush treatment he performs as part of his evening toilette.
Occasionally a little pumice stone, in impalpable powder, or powdered cuttlefish bone, putty powder (polisher's peroxide of tin), may be used along with water and a piece of wash-leather, flannel, or the nailbrush, for the same purpose.
Indeed, while Victorians bathed regularly and believed in fresh air, they generally had only one toothbrush per household; the family toothbrush, if you will, in much the same way that families now have one nailbrush, or one shoe-polishing kit.