different between beard vs beardo

English

Etymology

From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ard?eh?, *b?h?erd?eh? (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian ??????? (borodá)). Doublet of barb.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??d/, /bi?d/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d
• Homophone: beared (in accents with the near-square merger)

Noun

beard (plural beards)

1. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
2. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
3. The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
4. The byssus of certain shellfish.
5. The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
6. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
7. (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.

8. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
9. The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
10. That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
11. (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
12. (LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.

Derived terms

• bearded
• beardless
• beardlike
• beard-second
• nosebeard

Translations

Verb

beard (third-person singular simple present beards, present participle bearding, simple past and past participle bearded)

1. (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
2. To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

   Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.

   • 1943, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby, December 6, 1943

     We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...

   • 1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

     . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.

3. (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
4. (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
5. (LGBT, slang, transitive, intransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
   • 1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit (page 39)

     Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]

Derived terms

• beard the lion, beard the lion in his den

Translations

See also

• goatee
• hair
• merkin
• moustache, mustache
• pogonophobia
• sideburns, sideboards
• whiskers
• awn

Further reading

• beard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bader, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, bread, debar

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ard?eh? (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian ??????? (borodá)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ??rd/, [bæ??r?d]

Noun

beard m (nominative plural beardas)

1. beard

Declension

Derived terms

• beardl?as

Descendants

• Middle English: berd, bard, bærd, beord, burd
  • English: beard
  • Scots: berd, berde, beird

English

Etymology

beard +? -o; in some uses, clearly influenced by weirdo, hence a blend of beard +? weirdo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d??

Noun

beardo (plural beardos)

1. (informal, derogatory) A person with a beard.
   • 1994, Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, University of California Press, ?ISBN, page 90,

     Moreover, in the regional patois one common expression used by outsiders, including unsympathetic shaykhs, to refer to the group was birub? dign, which can be glossed as the “bearded ones” or more colloquially as “beardo’s.”

   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Picador, ?ISBN, page 331,

     However you get through your day in New York City, well then that’s a New York City kind of day, and if you’re a Bombay singer singing the Bombay bop or a voodoo cab driver with zombies on the brain or a bomber from Montana or an Islamist beardo from Queens, then whatever’s going through your head?, well that’s a New York state of mind.

   • 2003, Suzi Rose, Accidental Heroine: Diary of an Attention Seeker, Authors On Line Ltd, ?ISBN,page 146,

     Mr Bore is in his garden again. I went to say Hello and he gave me a really stony look so I went back in. I really don’t know what his problem is. Anti-social beardo (that’s a weirdo with a beard).

   • 2004, Joshua Wright, Plotless Pointless Pathetic, Allen & Unwin, ?ISBN, page 119,

     ‘[…] He can’t control the weather. It’s controlled by the atmosphere, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. It’s not run by just some mouldy old beardo wearing a bed sheet and throwing thunderbolts about.’

Anagrams

• Debora, abrode