different between bearded vs shaggy

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

Etymology

shag +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ?i/

  Rhymes: -æ?i

Adjective

shaggy (comparative shaggier, superlative shaggiest)

1. With long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

     They waited until Dorothy awoke the next morning. The little girl was quite frightened when she saw the great pile of shaggy wolves, but the Tin Woodman told her all. She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.

2. With a surface like shaggy hair; rough nap.

Derived terms

• shaggy dog story

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