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Word entry · 4 letters

barb

Best crossword clue

"Hooked point"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /bɑː(ɹ)b/Part of speech verb, nounSorted abbrStarts with BEnds with B1 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2A3R4B

Definitions

  1. provide with barbs

Word origin

From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard.

Used in a sentence

  • Having two barbs or points.
  • 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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