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babbitt

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Noun, Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

bab=bitt

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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;

is a kind of alloy, metal

Derived form verb babbitt₁

Verb babbitt has 1 sense

babbitt(v = verb.contact) - line with a Babbitt metal;

is one way to

line

Derived form noun babbitt₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

babbitt, v. t.

To line with Babbitt metal. [1913 Webster]

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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.

babbitt, n. a materialistic, complacent businessman.

Derivative

Babbittry n.

Etymology

George Babbitt, a character in the novel Babbitt (1922) by S. Lewis

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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