different between bearded vs beardy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??d?d/, /?b??d?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??d?d/, /?bi?d?d/

Etymology 1

From beard +? -ed.

Verb

bearded

1. simple past tense and past participle of beard

Etymology 2

From Middle English berded, from Old English ?ebearded, ?ebeardede, ?ebierd, ?ebierde (“bearded”), from Proto-Germanic *bardidaz (“bearded”), equivalent to beard +? -ed. Cognate with Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German b?rt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).

Adjective

bearded (comparative more bearded, superlative most bearded)

1. Having a beard; involving a beard.
   • c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, Scene 1, [1]

     Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:

   • 1693, Juvenal, The Satyrs, translated by John Dryden and others, London: J. Tonson, 1735, 6th edition, Satyr VI, p. 80, [2]

     There are who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss; / To shun the Scrubbing of a bearded Kiss, / And 'scape Abortion; but their solid Joy / Is when the Page, already past a Boy, / Is Capon'd late; and to the Gelder shown, / With his two Pounders to Perfection grown. / When all the Navel string cou'd give, appears; / All but the Beard, and that's the Barber's loss, not theirs.
2. Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
   • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, lines 1-3, [3]

     This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]

   • 1881, Oscar Wilde, "Panthea" in Poems, Boston: Roberts Brothers, p. 182, [4]

     [...] but the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!

   • 1894, A. E., "On a Hill-Top" in Homeward: Songs by the Way, London: John Lane, 1901, p. 42, [5]

     Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,

3. (Of an axe) having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
4. (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene 1, [6]

     [...] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’

   • 1855, Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, Part II, lines 55-7, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, p. 248, [7]

     [...] for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots [...]

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,

     Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.

Synonyms

• (zoology, botany) bristly
• (botany) awny
• (botany) barbate
• barbed

Antonyms

• beardless

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

bearded (plural beardeds)

1. (informal, botany, horticulture) A bearded iris.

Anagrams

• breaded, debeard, derdeba

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