bardie

English

Etymology 1

From bard +‎ -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹdi/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)di

Noun

bardie (plural bardies)

1. (Scotland) A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by Robert Burns.
   • 1998, Carol McGuirk, Critical Essays on Robert Burns‎^[1], page 168:

     […] Burns signals her distance from the Classical Muses, and his position as more bardie than bard.

Etymology 2

Adjective

bardie (comparative more bardie, superlative most bardie)

1. Rude and insolent; bolshie.

Etymology 3

From Noongar language bardi.

Alternative forms

• bardee, bardy

Noun

bardie (plural bardies)

1. (Australia) The edible larva of an insect.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia‎^[2], pages 19–20:

     Oh don't you remember Black Alice […] / […] the bardees she gathered, the snakes that she stewed / And the damper you taught her to bake—.

Anagrams

• Beaird, abider, abreid, air bed, airbed