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babbitt
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun babbitt has 1 sense
- babbitt(n = noun.substance) babbitt metal - an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction; Array is a kind of alloy, metal
Derived form verb babbitt1
Verb babbitt has 1 sense
- babbitt(v = verb.contact) Array - line with a Babbitt metal; Array is one way to line
Derived form noun babbitt1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
OXFORD DICTIONARY
babbitt, n.
1 (in full Babbitt metal) any of a group of soft alloys of tin, antimony, copper, and usu. lead, used for lining bearings etc., to diminish friction.
2 (babbitt) a bearing-lining made of this.
1 (in full Babbitt metal) any of a group of soft alloys of tin, antimony, copper, and usu. lead, used for lining bearings etc., to diminish friction.
2 (babbitt) a bearing-lining made of this.
babbitt, n. a materialistic, complacent businessman.
Derivative
Babbittry n.
Etymology
George Babbitt, a character in the novel Babbitt (1922) by S. Lewis
THESAURUS
babbitt
Middle American, Philistine, anal character, arriviste, boeotian, boob, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, churl, clown, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, epicier, formalist, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, methodologist, middle-class type, middlebrow, model child, mucker, nouveau riche, organization man, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, precisian, precisianist, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yes-man, yokel
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