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Barb

noun

An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect. Synonyms: dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam. "She threw shafts of sarcasm" , "She takes a dig at me every chance she gets"

The pointed part of barbed wire.

A subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove.

One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather.

verb

(past & past part. barbed; pres. part. barbing)

Provide with barbs.

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"Barb" Quotes from Famous Books

... little finger! You fair, foul devil, how I hate you!" She drew herself up to her full height, and regarded the wretched girl with such contemptuous scorn that even in her abject misery she felt its barb. ...

— Bred in the Bone • James Payn

... The porcupine's quills may be pulled out easily by anything which presses too rudely against them, such as the mouth of a mastiff; and this because they are very slightly attached by their roots, and have a barb upon their tops that takes hold upon any enemy that may attempt to touch them. This is the only defence the poor animal has got—as it is so slow of foot that any of its enemies can easily come up with it. But, notwithstanding its slowness, most of ...

— The Desert Home - The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... Higgins. "The same all over the world! A fence makes them see red. Barb wire is to 'em like a new steel trap to a wolf. Wonder if it ...

— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen

... as he saw The crimson drops out-welling from the wound; Shudder'd the warlike Menelaus' self; But when not buried in his flesh he saw The barb and ...

— The Iliad • Homer

... and cutting of several strangers' as well as citizens' hair and faces on the Lord's Day, which ought to be kept sacred, it is ordered by the whole consent of this court, and if any brother of the said Company shall at any time hereafter either by himself, servant, or substitute, tonse, barb, or trim any person on the Lord's Day, in any Inn or other public or private house or place, or shall go in or out of any such house or place on the said day with instruments used for that purpose, albeit the same cannot be positively proved, or made appear, but in case the Lord Mayor ...

— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews

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