Meanings (ES + gloss)
lengüeta • pincho • puya • púa
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.
Having two barbs or points.
pulla
A hurtful or disparaging remark.
And she was the only girl in class who did not, sometime through the lesson, get a barb of sarcasm from Miss Brownell, though she made as many mistakes as the rest of them.
to trade barbs
barba
One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
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