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beard
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)
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
- (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)
- (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
- 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.
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (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); […]
- 1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit (page 39)
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)
- beard
Declension
Derived terms
- beardl?as
Descendants
- Middle English: berd, bard, bærd, beord, burd
- English: beard
- Scots: berd, berde, beird
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unbearded
English
Etymology
un- +? bearded
Adjective
unbearded (not comparable)
- Not having a beard, beardless.
Translations
Anagrams
- aburdened, unbreaded
unbearded From the web:
- what does unbearded meaning
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