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babbitt [ˈbæbɪt] vb (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) (tr) to line (a bearing) or face (a surface) with Babbitt metal or a similar soft alloy Babbitt [ˈbæbɪt] n
US derogatory a narrow-minded and complacent member of the middle class [after George Babbitt, central character in the novel Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis] Babbittry n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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In place of the heroic, but rationally controlled, conception of manliness offered us by the ancients, modern thinkers give us a pallid, cautious, risk-averse bourgeois manliness--a world of Babbitts, rather than Achilles. The four-page data sheet, L1015B, details mechanical and physical properties, casting characteristics and pouring temperatures for high-tin and lead-base Babbitts. For each idyllic fable about the virtues of life in small communities, one could counter with fables of Peyton Place or the narrow-mindedness of the Babbitts of Main Street. |
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