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barbary | barbara |

As an adjective barbary

is barbarian; non-christian.

As a verb barbara is

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barbary

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The Mediterranean coastal areas of North Africa that were used as a base by pirates in the 16th to 19th centuries.
  • barbara

    Alternative forms

    * Barbra

    Proper noun

    (Barbaras)
  • .
  • * : Scene 3:
  • My mother had a maid call'd Barbara ; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; she had a song of 'willow'
  • * 17th' '''century or before: English folk song: ''Barbara Allen : 1839 version by Thomas Percy:
  • All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen.
  • * 1860 East Lynne . Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0192804626 page 29:
  • "What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!" "I don't think so," said Mr Carlyle. "It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara'! What a mouthful they all are!" ' Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like her name.
  • * 1922 , The Beautiful and Damned , ISBN 1603035281, page 76:
  • "Everybody in the next generation," suggested Dick, "will be named Peter or Barbara' - because at present all piquant literary characters are named Peter or ' Barbara ."
  • * 2007 (Marina Lewycka), Two Caravans , Fig Tree, ISBN 9780670916375, page 299:
  • 'Barbara ?' Barr?baah?rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.