Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The uttering of an abrupt explosive cry, as that of a dog.
- n. The process of stripping bark from trees, of removing a ring of bark from a tree so as to kill it, or of scraping dead bark from fruit-trees to promote their growth.
- n. The operation of tanning leather with bark; also, the operation of dyeing fabrics with an infusion of bark.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of bark.
- adj. Who or that barks or bark.
- adj. British slang Short for barking mad.
- n. The action of the verb to bark.
Examples
“You've heard the expression 'barking up the wrong tree'?”
The Huffington Post: Mark C. Miller: Man Locates Right Tree to Bark Up
“Too bad they don't live within "barking" distance of each other for easy visits!”
“It was crowded with youths and young men who were singing songs and ever and again barking out college yells.”
“The barking is a "noise" violation in most places too.”
“I was alone at home working on a project when I heard Austin barking and growling in a fierce "Danger's Here, Get Out Here Now, Boss" voice.”
“When Joe used his locator crow call, an Airedale came snarling and barking from a nearby house.”
“And, after hearing our dog barking from the patio, George would ask about her also.”
“It's just the old, confused and cranky McCain barking again!!!”
“The nearest of his two assailants was holding his sides, laughing in short, barking yips as he rolled back and forth on the ground.”
“He said he did, because he heard his barking from the receptionist's office and had gone to investigate.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘barking’.
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Descriptions of Sound
jingling, gurgling, horrisonous, horrisonant, crepitant, screeching, ringing, sonorous, clamorous, rattling, roaring, breathy and 71 more...
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Mots Fous
Describing the demented--as colorfully as possible.
bats in the belfry, out to lunch, daft, stark ravin' mad, unsound, barmy, nuts but nuts, barking, touched, cracked, doolally, potty and 22 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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1906 Railway Cipher Code
Terms from the Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association, 1906. The terms were shorthand for common phrases used in telegraphic communications between station agents and Railway Asso...
abdominal, abetting, abiology, ablative, abnormal, abominate, aboveboard, abrasive, absinth, abstinent, accursed, acetate and 212 more...
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Boroughs of London
My favorite city in the entire world. Includes former as well as current boroughs (tags indicate which). I've never lived there so undoubtedly some of these are wrong; main source is Wikipedia so t...
hillingdon, harrow, barnet, enfield, haringey, waltham forest, newham, redbridge, barking and dagenham, havering, bexley, greenwich and 95 more...
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London Underground Stations
Tagged with which London Underground line it is part of. Some are permanently closed and tagged as such. Some are open but have closed portions and are tagged "closed platforms."
Some ...woodside park, woodford, wood green, wimbledon park, wimbledon, willesden junction, willesden green, whitechapel, white city, westminster, west ferry, westbourne park and 326 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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South Yorkshire medical terminology
For definitions see the source document.
"All the words and phrases included in this guide are those that have been used by patients during consultations and have been included to assi...winkle, wind pipe, willy, widgy, well, it's a nogg..., wee-wee, water, uncle sam, tuppence, tummy ache, trotters, tootsies and 123 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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Favorite actions . . .
quash, ravaging, leering, spelunk, fuck, gorge, behead, dismember, mingle, trespass, revenge, baffle and 35 more...
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Tickle My Ears!
Words used to describe one's voice.
low, high-pitched, deep, booming, lilting, whispery, hoarse, raspy, throaty, angelic, male, female and 38 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for barking.
hernesheir "You must be careful to insert complete route on strap tag", in the abbreviated language of railroad telegraphers. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Jan 20, 2013