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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

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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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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues

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