barbed vs spleenful

barbed

adj
  • Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic. 

  • Accoutered with defensive armor; barded. 

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

  • Having barbs 

spleenful

adj
  • Full of spleen; spiteful. 

noun
  • More than one can take. 

  • A quantity of invective. 

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