beard

noun

/bɪəd/UK/bɪɹd/US/bɜː(ɹ)d/

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.

inherited from *bʰardʰeh₂✻
inherited from *bardaz✻
inherited from *bard✻
inherited from beard
inherited from berd

Definitions

Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
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1. The byssus of certain shellfish.
2. The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
3. The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
4. 7
  The long or stiff hairs on a plant
  The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
  - the beard of grain
5. 8
  Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
  - While all toms—adult male turkeys—have beards, nearly 10 percent of hens also have one, albeit a much stubbier, wispier version.
6. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the…
  A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
7. The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to…
  The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
8. That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the…
  That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
9. That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
10. 13
  A fake customer or companion
  A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
  - 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”.
11. To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
12. 15
  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.
  - 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.
13. To take by the beard
  To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
14. To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
15. Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
16. 19
  Of a gay man or woman
  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.
  - 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.
17. A surname transferred from the nickname.
18. A place name
  A place name:

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at beard. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at beard. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at beard

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA