Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name of the white-throat, Sylvia cinerea. Macgillivray.
- n. In Scotland, a name of the loach, Nemachilus barbatulus, a small fresh-water malacopterygian fish, family Cyprinidæ: so called from the six barbules that hang from the mouth. Also spelled beardie.
- n. A fish, Lotella marginata, of the family Gadidæ, resembling the loach: so named from the barbel under its chin. Also called ling.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- beard + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We have a reputation a strange reputation for many of us for being a "beardy" blog that studies what is understood to be a "non-beardy" subject.”
“Copenhagen was more interesting than I expected; it would have been fun to hear more of what some of TN's "beardy" folks are thinking.”
“Speccy, greeny, beardy, owly, ginger and the fit one - all the gang are here.”
“Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion.”
“Hmm. The Mill wonders which way the beardy Yank fiscal homunculi are going to go on this one.”
The Guardian: Football transfer rumours: Glen Johnson to Juventus?
“If my family or any of the beardy artisans they hung out with had found my diaries, overheard the nightly phone conversations with confidantes, or worse still, mind-read my fantasies – a cartoonish swirl of novice sex scenes, stalking plans and romantic heroine delusions – I have no doubt they would have been shocked out of their idealism.”
The Guardian: Joanna Briscoe: Mr A, my unattainable love god
“He's a sexy wheeler-dealer trapped in a beardy accountant's body, the poor love.”
The Guardian: TV review: The Apprentice, Home Is Where The Heart Is
“He's everything that Steve and Becky aren't – beardy, weirdy, inappropriate, awkward, unaware, socially inept … though not entirely unlikable; it's just that there are issues.”
“It's all very well to say that we must ditch the economic model that measures things in growth, but last time a beardy-weirdy type suggested tearing up the global economic system and starting all over again, it didn't turn out terribly well.”
The Huffington Post: Christina Patterson: What I Learnt from Prince Charles
“Come celebrate all things beard at the Bell House in Brooklyn on Monday January 31st, 2011 as we prepare to enter "Facial Hair February" with beardy bands, mustached DJs, vendors, contests, food and more.”
The Huffington Post: TONIGHT: Brooklyn Beardfest & Stache Bash
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beardy’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
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Wild About Hairy
Hairy words. Much pilfered from G. Cook's Hairy list.
woolly, whiskered, villous, unshorn, unshaven, tufted, stubbly, shaggy, pubescent, pilose, piligerous, piliferous and 58 more...
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