Noun: Barnaby
Sample Sentences
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Bounce cry the port-holes, out they fly
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And make the world dance Barnaby. [1640-1687, Charles Cotton, in his burlesque of Virgil]
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It was a regular Barnaby dance; I'd never seen anyone move so quickly. Before the culprit bolted out the door into the night, [1985, Gregory Sass, Redcoat, page 28:]
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"Owell gave me this. Said to get it to you in a Barnaby dance. 'Ere it is." His tongue scraped across his lower lip as he stared at Charity. [1996, Jo Ann Ferguson, Miss Charity's Case, page 182:]
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We were now doing a strange sort of Barnaby dance: shuffling to and fro as I blocked his attempts to set off in pursuit. [2009, Julia Golding, The Diamond of Drury Lane, page 434:]
Nouns inflected like Barnaby
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. * English surname of Aramaic origin, from בַּר נְבִיָּא (bar nəḇiyyā, literally “prophet’s son”).
2. * Also as an English surname, from Old English Beornwald, from beorn (“young warrior”) + wealdan (“rule”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
býr'.