different between beardy vs beardo

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

English

Etymology

beard +? -o; in some uses, clearly influenced by weirdo, hence a blend of beard +? weirdo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d??

Noun

beardo (plural beardos)

1. (informal, derogatory) A person with a beard.
   • 1994, Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, University of California Press, ?ISBN, page 90,

     Moreover, in the regional patois one common expression used by outsiders, including unsympathetic shaykhs, to refer to the group was birub? dign, which can be glossed as the “bearded ones” or more colloquially as “beardo’s.”

   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Picador, ?ISBN, page 331,

     However you get through your day in New York City, well then that’s a New York City kind of day, and if you’re a Bombay singer singing the Bombay bop or a voodoo cab driver with zombies on the brain or a bomber from Montana or an Islamist beardo from Queens, then whatever’s going through your head?, well that’s a New York state of mind.

   • 2003, Suzi Rose, Accidental Heroine: Diary of an Attention Seeker, Authors On Line Ltd, ?ISBN,page 146,

     Mr Bore is in his garden again. I went to say Hello and he gave me a really stony look so I went back in. I really don’t know what his problem is. Anti-social beardo (that’s a weirdo with a beard).

   • 2004, Joshua Wright, Plotless Pointless Pathetic, Allen & Unwin, ?ISBN, page 119,

     ‘[…] He can’t control the weather. It’s controlled by the atmosphere, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. It’s not run by just some mouldy old beardo wearing a bed sheet and throwing thunderbolts about.’

Anagrams

• Debora, abrode