“beards” is a form of
beard
UK /bɪəd/ · US /bɪɹd/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms beards bearding bearded
- noun Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- noun The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- noun The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- noun The byssus of certain shellfish.
- noun The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- noun (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- noun (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn. “the beard of grain”
- noun Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- verb (intransitive, obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
- verb (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded. “Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.”
- verb (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- verb (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- verb (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- verb (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) 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.
- proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, named after Josiah Beard.
- proper noun A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after ex-convict Timothy Beard.
Synonyms
Etymology
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.
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.
Originally a nickname for someone with a beard.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
- noun (a) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
- verb To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- verb To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
Etymology [OE. berd, AS. beard; akin to Fries. berd, D. baard, G. bart, Lith. barzda, OSlav. brada, Pol. broda, Russ. boroda, L. barba, W. barf. Cf. 1st Barb.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “beard”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details