Barnabyn.

Brit.

/ˈbɑːnəbi/, U.S.

/ˈbɑrnəbi/

Etymology: < French Barnabé, < Latin Barnabas.

By-form of the name Barnabas.

Compounds

Barnaby bright n. = Barnaby-day n.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year

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mid-Sundaya1475

madding-day1568

Lord Mayor's day1591

Barnaby bright1595

Lammas-eve1597

All Saints' Night1607

Handsel Monday1635

distaff's day1648

long Barnabya1657

St. Valentine's eve1671

leet-day1690

All Fools' Day1702

Boxing Day1743

April Fool's Day1748

Royal Oak Day1759

box day1765

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chalk-back day1851

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Tweede Nuwejaar1947

1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xv. sig. H3 This day the sunne is in his chiefest hight, With Barnaby the bright.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 32 Barnaby-bright would be much too short for him to tell you all that he could say.

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iv. iv. 96 It was but last St Barnabright They sieged him a whole summer night.

Barnaby-day n. St. Barnabas' Day, the 11th of June, in Old Style reckoned the ‘longest day’.

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1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xii. 255 Staying the Sun in Gibeon..This was..the Barnaby day of the whole world.

Barnaby-thistle n. the Centaurea solstitialis, so named from its flowering about the 11th of June.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > star-thistle

caltrop1578

starthistle1578

Barnaby-thistle1598

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Calcatrippa, Star-thistle, or Saint Barnabaes thistle.

long Barnaby n. = Barnaby-day n.

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