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A barb is a sharp point that curves backward, like a small hook — think of a fishhook or the on barbed wire, designed so that once something goes in, it's hard to pull back out. From that image comes a figurative meaning: a barb is also an , cutting remark meant to sting — 'she aimed a barb at his cooking' means she made a sharp little insult about it, not a full argument, just a quick jab.
(物)倒鉤;(話語)尖酸刻薄的話
組成Possibly from Latin barba, meaning 'beard' — the small point may once have been pictured like a little beard or whisker sticking out.
同家族的字
- barbercomes from the same Latin root barba, 'beard'
原始詞典資料24 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Barbname詞源 1
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A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
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A surname.
Barbnoun詞源 2
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slangA fan of American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj.
- Minaj is thrilled to be returning to her legion of Aussie Barbz this October in a brand new full-scale arena show.
- I’m not a Barb, but Nicki Minaj totally made me do a 180 on the whole hating-her-songs-and-general-vibe thing I had going on when I went to review her in concert.
barbnoun詞源 1/bɑː(ɹ)b/
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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.
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A hurtful or disparaging remark.
- to trade barbs
- And she was the only girl in class who did not, sometime through the lesson, get a barb of sarcasm from Miss Brownell, though she made as many mistakes as the rest of them.
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A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
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A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
- The barbel is so called […]by reason of his barbs, or wattles at his mouth.
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biologynatural-sciencesornithologyOne of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
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biologyichthyologynatural-sciencesAny of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
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The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteA muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
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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.
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obsoleteA bit for a horse.
- His loftie steed with golden sell And goodly gorgeous barbes.
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A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
barbverb詞源 1/bɑː(ɹ)b/
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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.
- Undoubtedly—when Ingratitude barbs the Dart of Injury—the wound has double danger in it—
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To cut (hair).
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obsoleteTo shave or dress the beard of.
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obsoleteTo clip; to mow.
- O thou pale ſober night, / […] / The ſtooping Sitheman that dooth barbe the field, / Thou makſt winke ſure: […]
barbnoun詞源 2/bɑː(ɹ)b/
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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?
- However, in the last few years, the stud farms in Morocco and elsewhere in the world have rediscovered the qualities of the barb, which, in Berber tradition, remains the king of the "fantasias", a festival that is also becoming fashionable once again.
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A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
barbnoun詞源 3/bɑː(ɹ)b/
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informalmedicinepharmacologysciencesA barbiturate.
- 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.
barbnoun詞源 4/bɑː(ɹ)b/
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Armor for a horse.
- The defensive armor with the horses of the ancient knights ... These are frequently, though improperly, stiled barbs.
barbverb詞源 4/bɑː(ɹ)b/
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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[…].
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。