# barnacled

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Crusted with barnacles.
2. Thickly covered in something, as if with barnacles.
3. Familiar with the ocean and/or seafaring.
4. Old and weathered, particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean.
5. Marked by personal experiences; worldly.
6. Encumbered with something unnecessary or undesirable, especially through a slow, gradual process of accumulation.

## Etymology
From barnacle + -ed.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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