barb
英 [bɑ?b]
美[bɑrb]
- vt. 裝倒鉤于
- n. 箭頭魚(yú)鉤等的倒鉤；傷人的話
- n. (Barb)人名；(英)巴布；(法、羅)巴爾布；(匈)鮑爾布
英英釋意
- 1. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect;
- "his parting shot was `drop dead'"
- "she threw shafts of sarcasm"
- "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
- 2. the pointed part of barbed wire
- 3. a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
- 4. one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather