Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗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. · A hurtful or disparaging remark. · A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. · A barbel on a fish's face.
To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. · To cut (hair). · To shave or dress the beard of. · To clip; to mow.
PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English barbe, from Middle French barbe, from Old French barbe (“beard, beard-like element”). Doublet of beard.
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