Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cotton bud
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Remove any blobs with a damp cotton bud.
▪ She licks the tip of a cotton bud and begins to comb her eyebrows.
▪ Then smudge downwards towards the lashes, using a cotton bud or a small brush.
▪ Use a cotton bud to blend the colours together, so there are no hard lines.
▪ Use a cotton bud to carefully blend away edges into foundation so there is no hard edge.
Usage examples of "cotton bud".
Two days later they got a verification from Air France that they had flown a very old colored man with a passport issued to Cotton Bud of New York City by way of Paris to Dakar.
After I had gone home, Marie checked this by the somewhat crude device of blindfolding the chicks and putting a cotton bud dipped in methylanthranilate in their bills.
First he anaesthetised the small creature, using only a spot of ether on a cotton bud.