Citations:barnacle

English citations of barnacle

Verb: "to connect with or attach"

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• 2009 — Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press (2009), →ISBN, page 178:

  Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.

• 2009 — Adam Gussow, Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir, University of Minnesota Press (2009), →ISBN, pages 76-77:

  Many of them were upperclassmen who'd been assigned to the Princeton Inn as freshmen and never escaped. By senior year they were barnacled into weirdly shaped fifth-floor garrets — majoring in astrophysics and Sanskrit, translating The Tale of Genji from medieval Japanese, bonging it up.

• 2009 — Sarah Laing, Dead People's Music, Vintage (2009), →ISBN, page 148:

  I imagined what remained of his brain to be barnacled to the inside of his skull, leaving a clear pond in the middle.

• 2010 —Gail T. Fairhurst, The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership, John Wiley and Sons (2010), →ISBN, page 73:

  Presiding over the courtroom, "dead center and motionless, sitting so still he might be barnacled to the back wall of the tank, hangs the black-robed judge."

• 2010 — Andy Merrills & Richard Miles, The Vandals, John Wiley and Sons (2010), →ISBN, page 71:

  Geiseric established the platform for a monarchy based on Roman, African and Christian (as well as 'barbarian') precedent, and successive ideological layers were barnacled on by the kings who followed him.

Verb: "to press close against something"

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• 1922 — Hugh Wiley, Lily, Alfred A. Knopf (1922), page 236:

  Under the arched doorway, with Magnezia Bunny barnacled to his arm, came the laboring feet of the sawed-off brunet.

• 1999 — Douglas Coupland, Miss Wyoming, Pantheon (1999), →ISBN, page 283:

  Don came out the doors and approached Susan, giving her a hug, with Marilyn barnacled between them.

• 2002 — Douglas Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic, Vintage Canada (2002), →ISBN, page 16:

  He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.

• 2009 — Liz Jensen, The Rapture, Bond Street Books (2009), →ISBN, page 23:

  Rafik has a firm hold of her shoulders now but she's gripped a handle of my wheelchair and barnacled herself to it.

• 2011 — Rachel Friedman, The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure, Bantam Books (2011), →ISBN, page 48:

  "That man has nothing to offer you," he concludes at a bar one night, gingerly extracting me from the nameless Irish guy I am drunkenly barnacled to.