beardly

English

Etymology

From beard +‎ -ly.

Adjective

beardly (comparative more beardly, superlative most beardly)

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a beard; beardish.
   • 2011, Upton Uxbridge Underwood, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Jack Passion, Poets Ranked by Beard Weight:

     Beards and nobility go hand in hand, so it will come as no surprise to most that members of the great lordly houses are wont to vaunt their beardly heritage.

   • 2013, D F Lewis, Horror Without Victims - Page 196:

     I leaned far off the safety of my board, so low that if my beard had been any longer its tip would have brushed the rumbling pebbles. But my beard was not long then, barely able to brush the hollow above my sternum, and I snatched up the coffer without bodily or beardly harm.

Anagrams

• Bradley, dryable