different between beagle vs beadle

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain, possibly a corruption of beadle in the sense of "constable, detective"; or alternatively from Middle French beegueule (“gaping throat, noisy person, whiner”), from Old French beer (variation of Old French bayer) + Old French gueule. The French bigle is from the English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bi????]
• Rhymes: -i???l

Noun

beagle (plural beagles)

1. A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.
2. A person who snoops on others; a detective.
   • 2002, Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See, page 243

     […] whereas burying a body in the wooded area beyond the backyard was the quickest way to make a Nassau County Police Department beagle look good.

3. A bailiff.
4. A small kind of shark.

Translations

Verb

beagle (third-person singular simple present beagles, present participle beagling, simple past and past participle beagled)

1. To hunt with beagles.
   • 1933, Charles Pascoe Hawkes, Heydays: a salad of memories and impressions, page 20

     […] reading men who beagled for fresh air and exercise, impecunious hunting men who beagled for economy […]

2. To search.
   • 1997, Fletcher Pratt, A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire, page 150

     […] Pope clapped his hand to his forehead and beagled like a maniac; he had clean forgotten Thorofare Gap.

Translations

Anagrams

• Belgae, glebae

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English beagle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi???l/
• Hyphenation: bea?gle

Noun

beagle m (plural beagles, diminutive beagletje n)

1. beagle (hound)

Anagrams

• belage

Finnish

Noun

beagle

1. beagle (dog)

Declension

Compounds

• beagle-harrier
• elizabethinbeagle
• kerrynbeagle
• taskubeagle

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?l/

Noun

beagle m (plural beagles)

1. beagle (dog)

Portuguese

Noun

beagle m, f (plural beagles)

1. beagle (small breed of dog)

Spanish

Noun

beagle m (plural beagles)

1. beagle

English

Alternative forms

• bedel, bedell (obsolete)
• bedral, bethral, betherel (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English bedel, bidel, from Old English bydel (“warrant officer, apparitor”), from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”), equivalent to bid +? -le. Cognate with Dutch beul, German Büttel. More at bid.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?bi?d??]
• Rhymes: -i?d?l

Noun

beadle (plural beadles)

1. a parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order
2. (Scotland, ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister
3. a warrant officer

Quotations

• 1789, William Blake, "Holy Thursday"

Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,

The children walking two and two in red and blue and green:

Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,

Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.

• 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:

  The beadle ... generally understood in the neighbourhood to be a ridiculous institution ... The policeman considers him an imbecile civilian, a remnant of the barbarous watchmen times, but gives him admission as something that must be borne with until government shall abolish him.

• 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 8

  His face expressed horror and indignation. Instinct rather than reason came to my help; he was a Beadle; I was a woman.

Derived terms

• beadledom
• beadleism
• beadlery
• beadleship

Translations

Anagrams

• Bedale, bealed, bedeal, belead