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▪ I. bardy, a. Sc.|ˈbɑːdɪ|
[Origin uncertain: perh. f. bard n.1 sense 2.]
Bold-faced, defiant; audacious, pert. Hence ˈbardily adv., ˈbardiness.
1788R. Galloway Poems 202 (Jam.) Shun the pert and bardy dame, Whose words run swiftly void of sense. Ibid. 64 They, bardily, and hardily, Fac'd home or foreign foe. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 118 Haudin up the..chin o' him in a maist bardy and impertinent manner.
▪ II. bardy, n. Austral.|ˈbɑːdɪ|
Also bardee, bardi.
[Aboriginal.]
An edible Australian wood-boring grub (Bardistus cibarius) or its larvæ. Used locally in starve the bardies!, an exclamatory phr. of surprise or disgust.
1926R. J. Tillyard Insects Austral. & N.Z. xx. 233 Coleoptera..The ‘bardee’ of Western Australia, Bardistus cibarius Newm., ranges right across to New South Wales; its larvae are found in the stems of grass-trees and ‘black-boys’ (Xanthorrhoea) and are eaten both by aborigines and white people. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 8 Starve the bardies!, a popular W.A. ejaculation, synonymous with ‘Stone the crows!’ a1951X. Herbert in Murdoch & Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories 299 Kaijek paused to look among the broken roots for bardies. 1959A. Upfield Bony & Black Virgin xvii. 150 The bardee grubs came up from tree-trunks and..tree-roots to split their skins and emerge as great winged moths the size of a man's hand. a1963J. Fountain in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 270 Fisher..sneaking round the corner..with a jar of bardi grubs under his arm. |