barbed

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑː(ɹ)bd/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bd

Adjective

barbed (comparative more barbed, superlative most barbed)

  1. Having barbs.
    • 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 81:
      COCKATRICE an imaginary monster resembling a wivern with the head of a cock, the tongue barbed. It occurs displayed, but is ordinarily borne with the wings endorsed.
  2. (heraldry)
    1. Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
      • 1899, Thomas Benolt, The Visitations of the County of Surrey: Made and Taken in the Years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms ; 1572 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms ; and 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herald, and Augustin Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, Marshals and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, page 232:
        Crest : A demi-cockatrice or, crested gules, stricken through the back of the neck with an arrow sable, barbed and flighted argent. Sable, two bars humettée or between a cock in fesse and a swan in chief and in base argent.
      • 1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, A. B. C. of Heraldry, page 24:
        The cross barbed has its limbs terminated by arrow-heads; it is sometimes emblazoned cramponée and tournée, but Edmondson gives the last name to a totally different cross, one not unlike the cross fourchée.
    2. Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.
      • 1729, Abel Boyer, Le Grand théâtre de l'honneur et de noblesse [assisted by John Innes?] (overall work in French and English), page 77:
        Ex. A Cock barbed and crested, (that is, wattled and combed, which signifies the Comb and Gills of a Cock, when born of a different Tincture from the Body)
      • 1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, speculative and practical: with the true art of Blazon ... Illustrated with suitable examples of armorial figures, and achievements of the most considerable surnames and families in Scotland ..., page 216:
        About the year 1446, he carried, as by our old books of blazons, quarterly, first and fourth Marr; second and third Lyle, as above blazoned; for crest, a cock or, crested and barbed gules: motto, An I may; supported by two […]
    3. Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).
      • 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 859:
        PLANT (?Plantagenet). Arg. a rose gu. seeded or barbed vert.
  3. (of language, etc.) Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
  4. (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
    • 1638, Walter Raleigh, The Prerogative of Parliaments:
      Your Lordship may remember in your reading, that there were many Earles could bring into the field a thousand Barbed horses

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

barbed

  1. simple past and past participle of barb

Derived terms

References

  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbet.

Noun

barbed m (plural barbedau)

  1. barbet (Eubucco)

Derived terms

  • barbed aelddu (“Müller's barbet”)
  • barbed amryliw America (“versicoloured barbet”)
  • barbed amryliw Asia (“many-coloured barbet”)
  • barbed Anchieta (“Anchieta's barbet”)
  • barbed barfog (“bearded barbet”)
  • barbed bochfelyn (“gold-whiskered barbet”)
  • barbed bochwyn (“small green barbet”)
  • barbed brith (“pied barbet”)
  • barbed bronddu (“black-breasted barbet”)
  • barbed bronfelyn (“yellow-breasted barbet”)
  • barbed bronflewog (“hairy-breasted barbet”)
  • barbed bronfrown (“brown-breasted barbet”)
  • barbed brown (“brown barbet”)
  • barbed cefnddu (“black-backed barbet”)
  • barbed clustlas (“blue-eared barbet”)
  • barbed clustwyn (“white-eared barbet”)
  • barbed clustwyrdd (“green-eared barbet”)
  • barbed coch a melyn (“red and yellow barbet”)
  • barbed coronog (“scarlet-crowned barbet”)
  • barbed cyflgoch (“scarlet-hooded barbet”)
  • barbed Chaplin (“Chaplin's barbet”)
  • barbed deuddant (“double-toothed barbet”)
  • barbed du a melyn (“black-spotted barbet”)
  • barbed fforchbig (“prong-billed barbet”)
  • barbed gwarfelyn (“golden-naped barbet”)
  • barbed gwregysog (“black-girdled barbet”)
  • barbed gwrychgoch (“fire-tufted barbet”)
  • barbed gwyrdd (“green barbet”)
  • barbed gyddf-felyn (“lemon-throated barbet”)
  • barbed gyddf-frown (“brown-throated barbet”)
  • barbed gyddfaur (“golden-throated barbet”)
  • barbed gyddfddu Affrica (“African black-throated barbet”)
  • barbed gyddfddu Asia (“black-throated barbet”)
  • barbed gyddfgoch (“crimson-throated barbet”)
  • barbed gyddflas (“blue-throated barbet”)
  • barbed gyddflwyd (“grey-throated barbet”)
  • barbed gylfinbraff (“toucan barbet”)
  • barbed Hume (“Hume's blue-throated barbet”)
  • barbed Jafa (“black-banded barbet”)
  • barbed Levaillant (“Levaillant's barbet”)
  • barbed lliwgar (“gaudy barbet”)
  • barbed mantell wen (“white-mantled barbet”)
  • barbed mawr (“great barbet”)
  • barbed melynfrith (“yellow-spotted barbet”)
  • barbed miombo (“miombo pied barbet”)
  • barbed pengoch (“red-headed barbet”)
  • barbed pen rhesog (“lineated barbet”)
  • barbed penfelyn (“yellow-crowned barbet”)
  • barbed penfrith (“spot-crowned barbet”)
  • barbed penfrown (“oriental green barbet”)
  • barbed penlas (“blue-crowned barbet”)
  • barbed penwyn (“white-headed barbet”)
  • barbed pigddu (“black-billed barbet”)
  • barbed pigfelyn (“yellow-billed barbet”)
  • barbed pumlliw (“five-coloured barbet”)
  • barbed rhesog (“banded barbet”)
  • barbed Sladen (“Sladen's barbet”)
  • barbed talcengoch (“red-fronted barbet”)
  • barbed talcen oren (“orange-fronted barbet”)
  • barbed talcenfelyn (“yellow-fronted barbet”)
  • barbed tingoch (“red-vented barbet”)
  • barbed tonciog (“crimson-breasted barbet”)
  • barbed torchog (“black-collared barbet”)
  • barbed trwyn blewog (“bristle-nosed barbet”)
  • barbed Usambiro (“Usambiro barbet”)
  • barbed Viellot (“Viellot's barbet”)
  • barbed Whyte (“Whyte's barbet”)
  • barbed wynebfoel (“naked-faced barbet”)
  • barbed wynepgoch (“red-faced barbet”)
  • barbed ystlysfrith (“spotted-flanked barbet”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of barbed
radical soft nasal aspirate
barbed farbed marbed unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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