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babbitt
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?bæb?t/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?bæb?t/
- Rhymes: -æb?t
- Hyphenation: bab?bitt
Etymology 1
The noun is derived from Babbitt, the surname of the American inventor Isaac Babbitt (1799–1862) who invented the alloy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Noun
babbitt (countable and uncountable, plural babbitts)
- Short for babbitt metal, Babbitt metal (“a soft white alloy of variable composition (for example, nine parts of tin to one of copper, or fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction”).
- Synonyms: (rare) Babbitt's metal, bearing metal
Alternative forms
- babbit (nonstandard)
Translations
Verb
babbitt (third-person singular simple present babbitts, present participle babbitting, simple past and past participle babbitted)
- (transitive) To line (something) with babbitt metal to reduce friction.
Alternative forms
- babbit (nonstandard)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Babbitt, the surname of George Babbitt, the title character of the novel Babbitt (1922) by the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951). The word was also popularized by the George (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) song “The Babbitt and the Bromide”, first featured in the 1927 musical Funny Face and later in the film Ziegfeld Follies (1945).
Noun
babbitt (plural babbitts)
- (US, dated) Alternative letter-case form of Babbitt (“a person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals”)
- 1930 The Literary digest, Volume 105, Funk and Wagnalls, p.21
- One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired.
- [2002 Tamkang review, Volume 33, Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences, p.158
- [...] a "babbitt" is a person full of self-confident bluster who is nevertheless a narrowminded philistine and a hypocrite.]
- 2003 William Hyland, George Gershwin: a new biography, Greenwood Publishing Group, p.116
- Ira relished telling the story that Fred Astaire took him aside and said he knew what a babbitt was, but what was a bromide?
- 1930 The Literary digest, Volume 105, Funk and Wagnalls, p.21
Derived terms
- babbittry, Babbittry
Translations
Notes
References
Further reading
- babbitt (alloy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Babbitt (novel) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- babbitt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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bobbitt
English
Etymology
From the surname of John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife cut off his penis during his sleep.
Verb
bobbitt (third-person singular simple present bobbitts, present participle bobbitting, simple past and past participle bobbitted)
- (informal, transitive) To cut off the penis of (a man).
- Watch out: she might bobbitt you as you sleep.
Derived terms
- pull a Bobbitt
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