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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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*bʰardʰéh₂ |
From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂ (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá)). Doublet of barb.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɪə(ɹ)d/
- (US) IPA(key): /bɪɹd/, /biɚd/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /bɜː(ɹ)d/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
- Homophone: beared (in accents with the near-square merger)
Noun[edit]
beard (plural beards)
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 90:
- At this moment the cock began to play; he stuck out his beard, trailed his wings down by his legs, and made, with great solemnity and wavelike motions of his neck, a few steps forward on the branch, while he stuck up his tail and spread it out like a big wheel.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- the beard of grain
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
- (LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
facial hair
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opposite-sex companion of a gay person
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Verb[edit]
beard (third-person singular simple present beards, present participle bearding, simple past and past participle bearded)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
- (transitive) 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.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
- 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[1]:
- Murphy was a choleric man with a sense of his own importance. He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office. He rose with a very red face.
- 1943, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby, December 6, 1943
- We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
- 1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, 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.
- (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (LGBT, slang, transitive, intransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- 1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit (page 39)
- Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]
- 2017, Hildred Billings, Blown By An Inconvenient Wind:
- Things got weird after I married Jiro. It's like everyone knows I'm a lesbian who is bearding for her gay best friend so we can be rich one day, but they don't want to be reminded of it.
- 1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit (page 39)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
bravely oppose
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
beard m (nominative plural beardas)
Declension[edit]
Declension of beard (strong a-stem)
Derived terms[edit]
- beardlēas (“beardless”)
- Heaþubeardan (“Heathobards”)
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