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Barb

//bɑː(ɹ)b// name, noun, verb, slang

Proper Noun

Noun

1
The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
"Having two barbs or points."
2
The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
"Why sends not the Bridegroom his promised gift, / Is his heart more cold, or his barb less swift?"
3
A barbiturate. informal
"The benzos, it turns out, are just as highly addicting as the barbs, but they do have a much lower potential to cause death by overdose. […] The barbs became one of the most widely abused classes of drugs in the 1960s and 1970s."
4
Armor for a horse.
"The defensive armor with the horses of the ancient knights ... These are frequently, though improperly, stiled barbs."
5
A fan of American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj. slang
"Minaj is thrilled to be returning to her legion of Aussie Barbz this October in a brand new full-scale arena show."

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6
one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather wordnet
7
A hurtful or disparaging remark. figuratively
"to trade barbs"
8
A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
9
a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove wordnet
10
A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
"The barbel is so called […]by reason of his barbs, or wattles at his mouth."
11
the pointed part of barbed wire wordnet
12
One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
13
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect wordnet
14
Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
15
The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. US
16
A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
17
A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. obsolete
18
Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
19
A bit for a horse. obsolete
"His loftie steed with golden sell And goodly gorgeous barbes."
20
A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.

Verb

1
To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
"[…] for this day will pour down, / If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower, / But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire."
2
To cover a horse in armor.
"And now, in stead of mounting barbed steeds / To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, / He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber[…]."
3
provide with barbs wordnet
4
To cut (hair). Nigeria
5
To shave or dress the beard of. obsolete

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6
To clip; to mow. obsolete
"O thou pale ſober night, / […] / The ſtooping Sitheman that dooth barbe the field, / Thou makſt winke ſure: […]"

Etymology 1

PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard.

Etymology 2

PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard.

Etymology 3

Clipping of Barbary.

Etymology 4

Clipping of barbiturate.

Etymology 5

Corruption of bard.

Etymology 6

Corruption of bard.

Etymology 7

Clipping of Barbie, from Harajuku Barbie, an alter-ego of Nicki Minaj.

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