barbed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑː(ɹ)bd/Category:English 1-syllable words#BARBEDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BARBED
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#BARBEDAudio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bdCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)bd#BARBEDCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)bd/1 syllable#BARBED
Adjective
barbed (comparative more barbed, superlative most barbed)Category:English lemmas#BARBEDCategory:English adjectives#BARBEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BARBEDCategory:Pages with entries#BARBEDCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BARBED
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#BARBED
- (heraldryCategory:en:Heraldry#BARBED)
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#BARBED
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#BARBED
- 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)Category:English terms with quotations#BARBED
- 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 […]Category:English terms with quotations#BARBED
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#BARBED
- Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
- (of language, etc.) Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
- (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 horsesCategory:English terms with quotations#BARBED
Derived terms
Translations
having barbs
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Verb
barbedCategory:English non-lemma forms#BARBEDCategory:English verb forms#BARBEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BARBEDCategory:Pages with entries#BARBEDCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BARBED
- simple past and past participle of barb
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Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Welsh terms borrowed from English#BARBEDCategory:Welsh terms derived from English#BARBED barbet.
Noun
barbed m (plural barbedau)Category:Welsh lemmas#BARBEDCategory:Welsh nouns#BARBEDCategory:Welsh countable nouns#BARBEDCategory:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#BARBEDCategory:Welsh masculine nouns#BARBEDCategory:Pages with entries#BARBEDCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BARBEDCategory:Welsh nouns with red links in their headword lines#BARBED
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
Further reading
- Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd (2018), “Y Bywiadur”, in Llên natur, retrieved 27 September 2025.
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