barnacledadj.
/ˈbɑːnək(ə)ld/ 1. Covered with barnacles. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with other creatures
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1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 80 Cleaned with..Scrapers, if barnicled.
1884 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 523 My barnacled barque Drags..heavily on.
1890 Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 149/2 With their brains barnacled over with shellfish facts.
1900 J. L. Allen Increasing Purpose xvi. 222 There might have been..fewer creeds barnacled in the World's Ship of Souls.
2. colloquial. Wearing spectacles.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [adjective] > wearing spectacles
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1725 New Canting Dict. at Barnacles The Cuffin Quire with his Nose Barnacled..the Justice of Peace with his Spectacles on.
1829 Olio III. 55/2 The general reader and spokesman was ready barnacled for his office.
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 6 A gleam of spectacles. For though handsome lads, they were all (in the Scotch phrase) barnacled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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