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bearded
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
- 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)
- 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.
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, Scene 1, [1]
- 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,
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, lines 1-3, [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.
- (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.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene 1, [6]
Synonyms
- (zoology, botany) bristly
- (botany) awny
- (botany) barbate
- barbed
Antonyms
- beardless
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
bearded (plural beardeds)
- (informal, botany, horticulture) A bearded iris.
Anagrams
- breaded, debeard, derdeba
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downy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da?ni/
- Rhymes: -a?ni
- Homophone: Downie
Etymology
From down +? -y.
Adjective
downy (comparative downier, superlative downiest)
- Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
- Sharp-witted, perceptive.
- 1947, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Speech in UK House of Commons, 10th November 1947:
- 1947, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Speech in UK House of Commons, 10th November 1947:
- (Britain, Norfolk) Low-spirited; down in the mouth.
Translations
Noun
downy (plural downies)
- A blanket filled with down; a duvet.
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