Citations:barnacular

English citations of barnacular

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• 1875 — Fannie N. Smith (under the psuedonym Christabel M. Goldsmith), Shiftless Folks: An Undiluted Love Story, page 62

  It was a very uncertain matter what rock would be the basis of his future solidification into a housekeeping and sedate shell-fish ; or if he wasn't swallowed up by some big-bellied monster beforehand, and so altogether robbed of the patriarchal barnacular possibility.

• 2011 — Paul E. Hatcher, Nick Battey, Biological Diversity: Exploiters and Exploited, page 327

  Incidentally again, he perpetuated the idea of the barnacular origin of a goose, which persisted for around 500 years.

• 2013 — Alexandra Oliver, "One of These Days", Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, page 30

  It's Monday in the soggy park. We clump
  barnacular against the little wall.