Verb

• S: (v) barb (provide with barbs) "barbed wire"

Adjective

• S: (adj) barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious (capable of wounding) "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
• S: (adj) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.) "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"