babbitt

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: bab=bitt

CIDE DICTIONARY

babbitt, v. t. 

 To line with Babbitt metal.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

babbitt, n.
1 (in full Babbitt metal) any of a group of soft alloys of tin, antimony, copper, and usu. lead, used for lining bearings etc., to diminish friction.
2 (babbitt) a bearing-lining made of this.

babbitt, n. a materialistic, complacent businessman.

Derivative

Babbittry n.

Etymology

George Babbitt, a character in the novel Babbitt (1922) by S. Lewis

THESAURUS

babbitt

Middle American, Philistine, anal character, arriviste, boeotian, boob, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, churl, clown, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, epicier, formalist, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, methodologist, middle-class type, middlebrow, model child, mucker, nouveau riche, organization man, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, precisian, precisianist, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yes-man, yokel