All barb synonyms

noun barb

• arrow — An arrow is a written or printed sign that consists of a straight line with another line bent at a sharp angle at one end. This is a printed arrow: →. The arrow points in a particular direction to indicate where something is.
• dart — If a person or animal darts somewhere, they move there suddenly and quickly.
• criticism — the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
• sarcasm — harsh or bitter derision or irony.
• gibe — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
• insult — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
• shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
• thorn — German name of Toruń.
• prickle — a sharp point.
• bristle — Bristles are the short hairs that grow on a man's chin after he has shaved. The hairs on the top of a man's head can also be called bristles when they are cut very short.
• spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
• spur — a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
• prong — one of the pointed tines of a fork.
• thistle — any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
• quill — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• affront — If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
• dig — to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
• scoff — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
• sneer — to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt: They sneered at his pretensions.
• rebuff — a blunt or abrupt rejection, as of a person making advances.
• point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• tip — Eugene (Gladstone) 1888–1953, U.S. playwright: Nobel prize 1936.
• spine — the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
• taunt — to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
• sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.