babbitt

(bab′it)

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noun

Babbitt metal

transitive verb

to line or cover with Babbitt metal

noun

a smugly narrow and conventional person interested chiefly in business and social success; Philistine

Origin: after George Babbitt, title character of a satirical novel (1922) by Sinclair Lewis

Related Forms:

Babbitt, Milton Byron 1916-; U.S. composer

See babbitt in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A narrow-minded, self-satisfied person with an unthinking attachment to middle-class values and materialism.

Origin:

Origin: After George F. Babbitt, the main character in the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Related Forms:

, Irving 1865-1933.

American humanist and scholar whose New Humanism movement sought to revive interest in classical virtues in literary criticism.

, Milton Byron Born 1916.

American composer whose works, including Vision and Prayer (1961) for soprano and synthesizer, combine serial music and electronic effects.

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