different between barbed vs thorny

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English thorny, þorny, þorni, from Old English þorni?, from Proto-West Germanic *þornag. Equivalent to thorn +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????ni/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ni

Adjective

thorny (comparative thornier, superlative thorniest)

1. having thorns or spines

   Synonyms: prickly, spiny

2. (figuratively) troublesome or vexatious
3. aloof and irritable

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• rhyton

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English þorni?, from Proto-West Germanic *þornag. Equivalent to thorn +? -y.

Alternative forms

• þorny, þorni, thornye, thornee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???rni?/

Adjective

thorny

1. Having many thorns or spines; thorny.
2. (rare) Covered in thorny plants.
3. (rare) Having a shape like a thorn.

Descendants

• English: thorny
• Scots: thorny

References

• “thorn?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.

Etymology 2

From thorn +? -en (“infinitival suffix”).

Verb

thorny

1. Alternative form of thornen