To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant.
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.
To depart with a sweeping motion; to rush away.
Thus, ſeizing his hat, he bruſh’d off like the wind, / And the Porter and Eatables follow’d behind.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brush, off. To remove something with a brush.
Nonstandard spelling of brush-off.
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