different between baldie vs bardie

English

Alternative forms

• baldy

Etymology

bald +? -ie

Pronunciation

Noun

baldie (plural baldies)

1. (informal, often derogatory) Somebody who is bald.
2. (birdwatching, slang) The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).
3. (slang) A fish, the baldchin groper.

Synonyms

• (bald person): baldhead, baldpate, slaphead, skinhead

Translations

Anagrams

• Abdiel, Idabel, bailed, belaid, bidale, dabeli, diable, déblai

English

Etymology 1

From bard +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??di/
• Rhymes: -??(?)di

Noun

bardie (plural bardies)

1. (Scotland) A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by Robert Burns.

Etymology 2

Adjective

bardie (comparative more bardie, superlative most bardie)

1. Rude and insolent; bolshie.

Etymology 3

From Noongar language bardi.

Alternative forms

• bardee
• bardy

Noun

bardie (plural bardies)

1. (Australia) The edible larva of an insect.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter II, pp. 19-20, [2]

     Oh don't you remember Black Alice […] / […] the bardees she gathered, the snakes that she stewed / And the damper you taught her to bake—.

Anagrams

• Beaird, abider, abreid, air bed, airbed