barbed
adjective
[ bɑːbd ]
• having a barb or barbs.
• "barbed arrows"
Similar:
jagged,
hooked,
spiky,
spiked,
spined,
spiny,
prickly,
thorny,
scratchy,
bristly,
bristled,
briary,
brambly,
sharp,
pointed,
spinose,
spinous,
barb
verb
• cut or style (a person's hair).
• "he has barbed the hair of any celebrity you can think of"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in now obsolete British use, in the sense ‘shave or trim a man's beard’, from the French verb barber, from barbe ‘beard’): in modern Nigerian use a back-formation from barber.
