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barbed

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??(?)bd/

Adjective

barbed (comparative more barbed, superlative most barbed)

  1. Having barbs
  2. (heraldry) Bearded (also applied to roses, referring to the leaves between the petals).
  3. (of language, etc.) Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
  4. (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
    • 1638, Walter Raleigh, The Prerogative of Parliaments
      Your Lordship may remember in your reading, that there were many Earles could bring into the field a thousand Barbed horses

Translations

Verb

barbed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of barb

Derived terms

  • barbed wire

References

  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams

  • dabber, debarb

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barfed

English

Verb

barfed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of barf

Anagrams

  • farbed

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