beard
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English berd, from Old English beard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (cf. West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰ-eh₂ (cf. Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода (borodá), Albanian brazdë (“furrow”)).
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /bɪə(ɹ)d/, X-SAMPA: /bI@(r\)d/
- (US) IPA: /bɪɹd/, /biɚd/, X-SAMPA: /bir\d/, /bi@`d/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(r)d
Noun [edit]
beard (plural beards)
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
- (LGBT, slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
facial hair
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woman accompanying a gay male
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See also [edit]
Beard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- goatee
- hair
- moustache, mustache
- pogonophobia
- sideburns, sideboards
- whiskers
- awn
Verb [edit]
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.
- Macaulay
- No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
- Ross Macdonald, The Chill, 1963, 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.
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Translations [edit]
bravely oppose
