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beard

UK/bɪəd/ US/bɪːd/ common slang
noun (5) verb (1)

noun

1.

the hair growing on the lower part of a man''s face

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2.

a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses

3.

a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)

4.

hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals

5.

tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface

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verb

1.

go along the rim, like a beard around the chin

  • “Houses bearded the top of the heights”

Origin

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.

Phrases

  • Aaron's beard
  • beard balm
  • beard brush
  • beard bug
  • beard burn
  • beard comb
  • beard cream
  • beard cut
  • beard the lion
  • beard the lion in his den
  • lavender marriage

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