barbed vs pointy

barbed

adj
  • Accoutered with defensive armor; barded. 

  • Bearded (also applied to roses, referring to the leaves between the petals). 

  • Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic. 

  • Having barbs 

pointy

adj
  • In the Raku programming language: being a block or subroutine that acts as a closure accepting a list of parameters (denoted by the pointed arrow symbol ->). 

  • Pointed in shape; having a point or points. 

noun
  • Any pointed object. 

How often have the words barbed and pointy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )