Definitions for barnacles

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barnacles bar·na·cle

Spelling: [bahr-nuh-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈbɑr nə kəl/

Barnacles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 543 anagrams from letters in barnacles (aabcelnrs).

Definitions for barnacles

noun

1. any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
2. a person or thing that clings tenaciously.
3. Usually, barnacles. an instrument with two hinged branches for pinching the nose of an unruly horse.
4. barnacles, British Dialect. spectacles (def 3).

Origin of barnacles

1580-85; perhaps a conflation of barnacle barnacle goose with Cornish brennyk, Irish báirneach limpet, Welsh brenig limpets, refl

Examples for barnacles

You haven't got any appointment, you know,' said barnacle Junior.

The father of that father who married a barnacle, married a Joddleby.

The barnacle family had for some time helped to administer the Circumlocution Office.

This light in hand young barnacle knew perfectly that it was not.

This dashing young barnacle, in a word, was likely to become a statesman, and to make a figure.

You stick to us in a devil of a manner,' Said barnacle junior, looking over his shoulder.

Playing an aging superhero named Merman (with sidekick barnacle Boy), Borgnine takes on the “champion of the deep.”

My father's not in the way, and won't be in the way to-day,' said barnacle Junior.

According to others, the barnacle geese could both run and fly.

The agreeable young barnacle, and Bar, were the talkers of the party.