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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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??di/

Etymology 1

From beard +? -y. Compare Saterland Frisian boartich (“bearded”), Dutch baardig (“bearded”), German bärtig (“bearded”).

Adjective

beardy (comparative beardier or more beardy, superlative beardiest or most beardy)

1. Bearded.
   • 1967 May, The Siege of Witch-Hobble Island, Boys' Life, page 44,

     But his left foot was caught in that blame noose in the end of the rope, so only his beardy head went underwater and he was dragged along like that for a few wet yards.

   • 2008, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Island of Mad Scientists: Being an Excursion to the Wilds of Scotland, page 42,

     The biggest, oldest, beardiest, reddest-faced of them addressed Professor Bellbuckle.

2. Manly, masculine.
   • 1851, The Musical World, Volume 29, page 228,

     The Doge is one of the popular barytone's most weighty performances, and we do not remember to have heard his voice more powerful, his acting more beardy and emphatic.

Etymology 2

From beard +? -y.

Alternative forms

• beardie

Noun

beardy (plural beardies)

1. (informal) A bearded person or animal:
   1. A bearded person; used to identify members of a group or class who can be identified by the wearing of beards.
      • 1900, Alexander Gordon, Wroe, John, article in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol 63,

        His followers were known in Australia as ‘beardies.’

      • 2011, Chris Gibson, John Connell, Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia, page 255,

        Seven such social groups were present at the two festivals: Beardies; Jammers; Irish Fiddlers; Poets; Dancers; Campers an Vanners. […] The Beardies are men, mainly heavily bearded; described by David as ‘the traditionalists and fundamentalists of the folk scene’ who are often heads of folk club[s], the older generation and the highly respected (Figure 15.1).

   2. A bearded dragon.
      • 2005, Reptiles, Volume 13,

        But she always kept her distance whenever one of my beardies was out of its cage, as if Moose merely acted like a good-natured lap lizard to throw her off […] .

      • 2007, Steve Grenard, Bearded Dragon, page 52,

        It is impossible to determine the sex of beardies as babies or juveniles, so if you are thinking of breeding them, you may have to buy four or five and raise them in individual enclosures.

      • 2008, Suzanne Buckingham, Meet the Bearded Dragon, page 20,

        The bearded dragon will reach its adult length by one year. Baby beardies quickly grow into long, strong lizards!

   3. A bearded collie.
      • 1996, Andrew De Prisco, James Burris Johnson, Choosing a Dog for Life, page 73,

        Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.

      • 2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 754,

        Beardies take two to three years to mature, so be prepared for typical puppy activity during this time.

   4. Any of several kinds of fish; a loach.
      • 1864, John Younger, River Angling for Salmon and Trout : With a Memoir and List of the Tweed Salmon Casts, page 180,

        Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.

Anagrams

• brayed, bready, red bay, redbay