beard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
beekeeping
biology
botany
business
entomology
lepidopterology
lifestyle
media
natural-sciences
printing
publishing
zoology
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots beird (“beard”), Yola bearde (“beard”), North Frisian biard (“beard”), Saterland Frisian Boart (“beard”), West Frisian burd (“beard”), Bavarian Bårt (“beard”), Dutch baard (“beard”), German Bart (“beard”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Baart (“beard”), Vilamovian biöt (“beard”), Yiddish באָרד (bord, “beard”), Icelandic barð (“brim; edge, ridge”), Norwegian Bokmål bart (“moustache”), Norwegian Nynorsk bard, barde (“edge, rim”), bart (“moustache”), Crimean Gothic bars (“beard”); also Latin barba (“beard”), Latvian bārda (“beard”), Lithuanian barzda (“beard”), Belarusian барада́ (baradá, “beard”), Bulgarian and Macedonian брада́ (bradá, “beard; chin”), Czech, Slovak, and Slovene brada (“beard”), Russian and Ukrainian борода́ (borodá, “beard”), Serbo-Croatian бра́да, bráda (“beard”). Doublet of barb.
Inflected forms:
form: beards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bearding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bearded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bearded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
pos: noun
gloss: The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
pos: noun
gloss: The byssus of certain shellfish.
pos: noun
gloss: The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
pos: noun
gloss: The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
pos: noun
gloss: The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
pos: noun
examples: the beard of grain
gloss: Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
pos: noun
examples: While all toms—adult male turkeys—have beards, nearly 10 percent of hens also have one, albeit a much stubbier, wispier version.
gloss: A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
pos: noun
gloss: The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
pos: noun
gloss: That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
pos: noun
gloss: That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: To get his way, Roberts employed a bit of developer's cunning: rather than approach Galardi directly, he sent a friend, Alan Meyers, as a “beard”.
gloss: A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: What are you talking about, I should be the beard? I don't wanna be a beard.
gloss: A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: One could also speculate that Linda also served as Cole's shield (or "beard") against his possibly being disinherited by his disapproving (of sissies) millionaire grandfather and doting mom, both of whom wanted him to be a lawyer.
Charlotte: Smith is not gay.
Miranda: Of course not.
Charlotte: So this makes you his beard.
In an interview with Net a Porter, Delevingne said that “one of the first things Harvey Weinstein ever said to me was, ‘You will never make it in this industry as a gay woman – get a beard.’”
gloss: To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk?
No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
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.
We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
. . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.
gloss: To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]
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.
Related words: goatee
hair
moustache
mustache
sideburns
sideboards
whiskers
pogonophobia
awn
merkin
lavender marriage
Derived words: Aaron's beard
beardage
beard balm
beard brush
beard bug
beard burn
beard comb
beard cream
beard cut
bearded
bearder
beardfish
beardgrass
beard hair
beardie
beardie-weirdie
beardiness
bearding
beardish
beardism
beardist
beard itch
beard kit
beardless
beardlessness
beardlet
beard lichen
beardlike
beardline
beardling
beardly
beard mask
beard moss
beard net
beardo
beard oil
beard pen
beard pencil
beard rash
beard roller
beardruff
beard-second
beard-stroking
beardtongue
beard tree
beard trimmer
beard wax
beard worm
beardy
bee beard
Blackbeard
Bluebeard
bluebeard
debeard
dragon's beard candy
fatbeard
fat beard
forkbeard
frost beard
goat's-beard
grandfather's beard
green-beard effect
greybeard
hare's-beard
hawksbeard
hawk's-beard
jaw beard
Jove's beard
Jupiter's beard
legbeard
Lombard
longbeard
Movember beard
neckbeard
Ned Kelly beard
nosebeard
old man's beard
Omer beard
playoff beard
Redbeard
seabeard
Shenandoah beard
Spanish beard
Thor's beard
tree-beard
treebeard
turkey's beard
unbeard
Vandyke beard
whitebeard
beard the lion
beard the lion in his den
Translations:
lang: German
word: Alibifreundin
lang: Italian
word: appuntamento di copertura
lang: Russian
word: ча́йка
roman: čájka
lang: Russian
word: борода́
roman: borodá
lang: Spanish
word: jotera
lang: Spanish
word: pantalla
lang: Spanish
word: tapadera
lang: Swahili
word: ndevu