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beardy¹

  • /ˈbɪədi/ UK

Where it comes from

From beard + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian boartich (“bearded”), Dutch baardig (“bearded”), German bärtig (“bearded”).

adjective beardier · more beardy · beardiest · most beardy

  1. Bearded. The plump John Bull, the sallow Frenchman, the beardy Italian, and still more-beardy Jew, the high-boned Scotchman the merry-faced Irishman, the turbaned Turk — a specimen of the human animal from almost every clime under heaven — are passing and repassing before you in the course of every ten minut
  2. Manly, masculine. 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.

beardy²

  • /ˈbɪədi/ UK

Where it comes from

From beard + -y.

noun beardies · beardie

  1. informal A bearded person; used to identify members of a group or class who can be identified by the wearing of beards. His followers were known in Australia as ‘beardies.’
  2. informal A bearded reedling. The fascinating "beardie" is not a tit at all, but belongs to an Asian family, the parrotbills.
  3. informal A bearded dragon. 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[…].
  4. informal A bearded collie. Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.
  5. informal Any of several kinds of fish; a loach. 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.

Beardy³

proper noun Beardys · Beardies

  1. A surname

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@misc{beardy_2026,
  title = {beardy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/beardy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}