bald
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Germanic *balluz
Old English *beall
Middle English bal?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰḗlH-o-m
Proto-Germanic *bēlą
Proto-West Germanic *bāl
Old English bæl?
Middle English balled
English bald
From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare Old Danish bældet (“bald”).
An alternate etymology has Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *bēlą. Compare Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ballë (“forehead”).
Inflected forms:
form: balder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: baldest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: balds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: balds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: balding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: balded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: balded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
pos: adj
examples: My uncle is bald.
The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.
Porn didn't revolutionize our pubic hair overnight […] but the general gist is that the vast majority of porn performers in film and magazines had full bushes until Hustler magazine printed a bald vulva, a so-called ‘pink shot’, in 1974.
gloss: Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
examples: a bald man with a moustache
“I am getting balder and balder trying to figure these things out,” he said at an event in Washington, D.C. on Monday where he acknowledged – as he has before – that he would not run outside the Democratic party establishment.
There has never been a bald James Bond nor a hairless contestant on Love Island. Growing up, bald men were never the superheroes and always the villains.
gloss: Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
pos: adj
gloss: Of hair, nonexistent.
pos: adj
examples: All my grandmothers are bald, all the way back to Tilly. Grandma Tilly from 1721. Full head of bald hair.
gloss: Lacking any covering.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The bald cypress is a tree that loses its leaves in winter.
gloss: Of a tyre, whose surface is worn away.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Of a statement or account, unembellished.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Such is a bald statement of the singular and romantic series of events which centred public attention upon this Lancashire tragedy.
The NYSDOT, through the DSEIS, makes a bald assertion in the DSEIS, but does not explain in detail, why it feels that the Short Bypass Tunnel provides a more appropriate and respectful setting for the WTC Memorial.
Here the existential process (“there is”) functions as a bald assertion of fact, with no hedging or concessions to the observer's subjectivity, while the nominalization (“a significant role-reversal”) activates a pre-existing category from the discourse of Literary Criticism, into which the present "specimen" will be slotted.
But yesterday's remarks are the baldest affirmation yet that Putin has no real intention of resigning from politics.
gloss: Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The plaintiff in this case must satisfy the judge that she has visible means, the mere bald statement that she has visible means is not suflicient.
The question regarding this issue is whether the applicant raised sufficient doubts regarding adoption and use of the official mark by the respondent as to have the effect that the respondent's bald assertion is not enough to provide evidence that the official mark was adopted and used or whether a negative inference should be drawn from the failure of the respondent to provide further evidence.
The Criminal Procedure Act of 1977 gives police officials the power and discretion to conduct identification procedures 'A bald statement that the accused is the person who committed the crime is not enough ... the greatest care should be taken to test the evidence.
The EC's bald assertion of compliance in the context of this scientific and factual landscape highlights the fact that it has made no effort to demonstrate how its new import ban satisfies the conditions of a "provisional" ban under Article 5.7 of the SPS Agreement or "rationally relates" to or is "reasonably supported" by a risk assessment for purposes of Article 5.1 of the SPS Agreement.
gloss: A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
gloss: A bald person.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: Brn hair eyes & stache sks same 28-38 for gd times fun frndship & or possibly more near Waltham area no balds drugs queens kinky scenes fats or pot smokg.
gloss: To become bald.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make bald.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He looked like a new Army recruit. "You've balded me!" he cried. He was so mad and hurt. He told Mom he wasn't going back to school until his hair grew out.
Related words: callow
nott
Derived words: bald as a billiard ball
bald as a bladder of lard
bald as a coot
bald as a peeled egg
Bald Blair
bald cap
baldchin groper
bald cypress
bald dick
bald eagle
bald earn
balden
bald erne
bald-faced
baldfaced
bald-faced hornet
baldhead
bald head
baldheaded
bald-headed
bald-headed hermit
bald-headed row
Bald Hills
baldie
Baldilocks
balding
baldingness
baldish
baldishness
baldist
baldly
baldmaxxer
baldmaxxing
baldmaxx
baldness
Bald Nob
bald patch
baldpate
baldpated
bald person
baldrib
Bald Ridge
bald-shame
bald-shaming
bald spot
bald wig
baldy
like butter on a bald monkey
long-beaked bald rush
make the bald man cry
mald
malding
nonbald
piebald
semibald
skewbald
two bald men fighting over a comb
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: bles
lang: Dupaningan Agta
word: polpog
lang: Albanian
word: tullac
lang: Southern Altai
word: тас
roman: tas
lang: Arabic
word: أَقْرَع
roman: ʔaqraʕ
lang: Arabic
word: أَصْلَع
roman: ʔaṣlaʕ
lang: Arabic
word: أَجْرَد
roman: ʔajrad
lang: Arabic
word: أقرع
roman: aʔraʕ
lang: Arabic
word: قرع
roman: qraʕ
lang: Armenian
word: քաչալ
roman: kʻačʻal
lang: Armenian
word: ճաղատ
roman: čaġat
lang: Asturian
word: calvu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: keçəl
lang: Azerbaijani
word: daz
lang: Basque
word: soil
lang: Basque
word: burusoil
lang: Belarusian
word: лы́сы
roman: lýsy
lang: Belarusian
word: пляшы́вы
roman: pljašývy
lang: Bengali
word: টাক মাথা
roman: ṭak matha
lang: Bengali
word: টেকো
roman: ṭekō
lang: Bengali
word: টাকলু
roman: ṭakolu
lang: Central Bikol
word: angas
lang: Breton
word: moal
lang: Bulgarian
word: плеши́в
roman: plešív
lang: Bulgarian
word: лис
roman: lis
lang: Catalan
word: calb
lang: Cebuano
word: upaw
lang: Cebuano
word: upawon
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 禿頭的 /秃头的
roman: tūtóu de
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 光禿禿的 /光秃秃的
roman: guāngtūtū de
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: tazbaş
lang: Czech
word: plešatý
lang: Danish
word: skaldet
lang: Dutch
word: kaal
lang: Erzya
word: чертеме
roman: čerteme
lang: Erzya
word: кепепря
roman: kepepŕa
lang: Esperanto
word: kalva
lang: Esperanto
word: senhara
lang: Estonian
word: kiilas
lang: Farefare
word: kõogɔ
lang: Faroese
word: skallutur
lang: Finnish
word: kalju
lang: French
word: chauve
lang: West-Frisian
word: keal
lang: Galician
word: careco
lang: Galician
word: cañón
lang: Galician
word: mouquelo
lang: Galician
word: cachapelada
lang: Galician
word: crouco
lang: Galician
word: crouquelo
lang: Galician
word: calvo
lang: Georgian
word: მელოტი
roman: meloṭi
lang: Georgian
word: ქოსა
roman: kosa
lang: German
word: kahl
lang: German
word: glatzköpfig
lang: Greek
word: φαλακρός
roman: falakrós
lang: Greek
word: καραφλός
roman: karaflós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φαλακρός
roman: phalakrós
lang: Hebrew
word: קירח \ קֵרֵחַ
roman: keréakh
lang: Hindi
word: गंजा
roman: gañjā
lang: Hungarian
word: kopasz
lang: Hungarian
word: tar
lang: Icelandic
word: sköllóttur
lang: Ido
word: kalva
lang: Ido
word: senhara
lang: Indonesian
word: botak
lang: Irish
word: maol
lang: Old Irish
word: máel
lang: Italian
word: calvo
lang: Italian
word: pelato
lang: Japanese
word: 禿げ
roman: hage
lang: Javanese
word: buthak
lang: Old Javanese
word: buṭak
lang: Kazakh
word: жалтыр
roman: jaltyr
lang: Kazakh
word: қасқа
roman: qasqa
lang: Kazakh
word: таз
roman: taz
lang: Khmer
word: តម្ពែក
roman: tɑɑtɑmpɛɛk
lang: Khmer
word: ត្រងាល
roman: trɑɑngaal
lang: Korean
word: 대머리의
roman: daemeoriui
lang: Central Kurdish
word: کەچەڵ
roman: keçell
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кашка
roman: kaşka
lang: Kyrgyz
word: таз
roman: taz
lang: Ladin
word: las
lang: Lao
word: ລ້ານ
roman: lān
lang: Lao
word: ໂລ້ນ
roman: lōn
lang: Latin
word: calvus
lang: Latvian
word: plikgalvains
lang: Lithuanian
word: plikas
lang: Luhya
word: sipara
lang: Macedonian
word: ќелав
roman: ḱelav
lang: Malay
word: botak
lang: Malayalam
word: കഷണ്ടി
roman: kaṣaṇṭi
lang: Manchu
word: ᡥᠣᡨᠣ
roman: hoto
lang: Manx
word: meayl
lang: Māori
word: pākira
lang: Māori
word: porohewa
lang: Māori
word: hewa
lang: Meru
word: kimencu
lang: Middle English
word: calwe
lang: Middle English
word: balled
lang: Mongolian
word: халзан
roman: xalzan
lang: Navajo
word: dilkǫǫh
lang: Neapolitan
word: scucciato
lang: Neapolitan
word: zelluso
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skalla
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skallet
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: skalla
lang: Occitan
word: calvet
lang: Church Slavic
word: възлꙑсъ
roman: vŭzlysŭ
lang: Old English
word: calu
lang: Old English
word: hnot
lang: Persian
word: طاس
roman: tâs
lang: Persian
word: کچل
roman: kačal
lang: Persian
word: کل
roman: kal
lang: Polish
word: łysy
lang: Portuguese
word: calvo
lang: Portuguese
word: careca
lang: Quechua
word: pagla
lang: Romanian
word: chel
lang: Romanian
word: pleșuv
lang: Russian
word: лы́сый
roman: lýsyj
lang: Russian
word: плеши́вый
roman: plešívyj
lang: Sanskrit
word: कुल्व
roman: kulva
lang: Sanskrit
word: खार्वाटक
roman: khārvāṭaka
lang: Sanskrit
word: ऋक्ष
roman: ṛkṣa
lang: Sasak
word: butak
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: maol
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ће̏лав
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ćȅlav
lang: Shor
word: тас
roman: tas
lang: Sicilian
word: tignusu
lang: Sicilian
word: pilatu
lang: Slovak
word: plešatý
lang: Slovene
word: plešast
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: goły
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: plěchaty
lang: Spanish
word: calvo
lang: Spanish
word: pelón
lang: Spanish
word: pelado
lang: Spanish
word: morondo
lang: Spanish
word: moroncho
lang: Spanish
word: pajla
lang: Sudovian
word: plikas
lang: Sundanese
word: butak
lang: Swedish
word: flintskallig
lang: Swedish
word: skallig
lang: Tagalog
word: kalbo
lang: Tagalog
word: upaw
lang: Tagalog
word: kutipyo
lang: Tajik
word: тос
roman: tos
lang: Tamil
word: சொட்டை
roman: coṭṭai
lang: Telugu
word: బట్టతల
roman: baṭṭatala
lang: Thai
word: ล้าน
roman: láan
lang: Thai
word: โล้น
roman: lóon
lang: Turkish
word: kel
lang: Turkish
word: dazlak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طازلاق
roman: dazlak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كل
roman: kel
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صاچسز
roman: saçsız
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قباق
roman: kabak
lang: Turkmen
word: sakar
lang: Udi
word: каьчаьл
roman: käčäl
lang: Ukrainian
word: ли́сий
roman: lýsyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: пліши́вий
roman: plišývyj
lang: Urdu
word: گنجا
roman: gañjā
lang: Uyghur
word: يالىئڭاچ
roman: yali'ngach
lang: Uzbek
word: kal
lang: Uzbek
word: toz
lang: Uzbek
word: siyqa
lang: Vietnamese
word: trọc
lang: Vietnamese
word: hói
lang: Walloon
word: tchenou
lang: Walloon
word: pelot
lang: Walloon
word: pelake
lang: Walloon
word: pelé
lang: Welsh
word: moel
lang: Woiwurrung
word: taweet
lang: Yakan
word: tukung
lang: Yiddish
word: פּליכעוואַטע
roman: plikhevate
lang: Yiddish
word: ליסע
roman: lise
lang: Yucatec Maya
word: k'olis
lang: Bengali
word: টাক পড়া
roman: ṭak poṛa
lang: Finnish
word: kaljuuntua
lang: Latin
word: calvescō
lang: Maltese
word: qriegħ
lang: Welsh
word: moeli