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Yes. The word barb is a Scrabble US word. The word barb is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word barb is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

BARB,

3-letter words (4 found)

ABB,ARB,BAR,BRA,

2-letter words (3 found)

AB,AR,BA,

You can make 8 words from barb according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of barb

barb

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑː(ɹ)b/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b

Etymology 1

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

Noun

barb (plural barbs)

  2. 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.
  4. (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
    to trade barbs
  5. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
  7. (ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
  9. (ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
  10. (US) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
    Synonyms: Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, southern kingfish
  11. (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
  12. (obsolete) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
  13. 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.
    Synonyms: barbel, barble
  14. (obsolete) A bit for a horse.
  15. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
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Verb

barb (third-person singular simple present barbs, present participle barbing, simple past and past participle barbed)

  1. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
  2. (Nigeria) To cut (hair).
  3. (obsolete) To shave or dress the beard of.
  4. (obsolete) To clip; to mow.
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Etymology 2

Clipping of Barbary.

Noun

barb (plural barbs)

  1. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
  2. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

Etymology 3

Clipping of barbiturate.

Noun

barb (plural barbs)

  1. (informal, pharmacology) A barbiturate.
    Coordinate term: benzo

Etymology 4

Corruption of bard.

Noun

barb (plural barbs)

  1. Armor for a horse.
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Verb

barb (third-person singular simple present barbs, present participle barbing, simple past and past participle barbed)

  1. To cover a horse in armor.

Further reading

  • barb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • barb (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Barb in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • BBAR, Rabb, abbr, abbr.

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbarp]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈbaɾp]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin barbus.

Noun

barb m (plural barbs)

  1. barbel (freshwater fish of the genus Barbus)

Etymology 2

From Latin varus, influenced by barba (“beard”).

Noun

barb m (plural barbs)

  1. blackhead (skin blemish)

Further reading

  • “barb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish borb (“foolish, rude”).

Adjective

barb (plural barbey, comparative barbey)

  1. sharp, drastic
  2. cruel, rough

Derived terms

  • neuvarb

Noun

barb m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. sharp point, javelin

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