barb

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. Armor for a horse.
    — The defensive armor with the horses of the ancient knights ... These are frequently, though improperly, stiled barbs.
  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. 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?
    In the Kingdom of the Horse: The National Studs of Morocco
  5. A hurtful or disparaging remark. figuratively
    — to trade barbs
  6. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
  7. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
  8. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.; A barbel on a fish's face.
    — The barbel is so called […]by reason of his barbs, or wattles at his mouth.
  9. One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
  10. Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
  11. The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. US
  12. A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
  13. A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. obsolete
  14. 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.
  15. A bit for a horse. obsolete
    — His loftie steed with golden sell And goodly gorgeous barbes.
  16. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
动词 v.
  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. To cut (hair). Nigeria
  4. To shave or dress the beard of. obsolete
  5. To clip; to mow. obsolete
    — O thou pale ſober night, / […] / The ſtooping Sitheman that dooth barbe the field, / Thou makſt winke ſure: […]

词形变化

barbs plural barbs present,singular,third-person barbing participle,present barbed participle,past barbed past barbs plural barbs plural barbs plural barbs present,singular,third-person barbing participle,present barbed participle,past barbed past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
PIE word
*bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard.
词源 2
Clipping of Barbary.
词源 3
Clipping of barbiturate.
词源 4
Corruption of bard.
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