beardedadj.
/ˈbɪədᵻd/, U.S. /ˈbɪrdᵻd/ 1.
a. Of a person (chiefly a man): having a beard. Also of the face, chin, etc.See also bearded lady n. at Compounds 1.Frequently with modifying words, forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has a —— beard’, as in big-bearded, black-bearded, rough-bearded, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard
beardedOE
beardy1605
thrum-chinned1608
barbal1650
barbed1693
barbose1716
pogonic1858
beavered1928
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xiv. 279 Heo wearð for þære mycclan gecynde & hæte þæs lustes gebeardedu.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 195 A mayde..i-chaunged and i-torned into a man, and was i-berded anon.
c1400 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1911) 127 56 (MED) To seen a batayle, or ellis berdid men, by-toknith open wrath.
c1460 My Fayr Lady in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 200 (MED) Liche a cow hire wombe is gert, Rympled liche a nunnys veylle And smothe berdyd liche a gete.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) l. 400 (MED) Whore berdyd Orpheus was there with hys harpe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 150 A Soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the Pard. View more context for this quotation
1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 39 Each bearded mouth.
1960 W. Harris Palace of Peacock ii. 29 Old Schomburgh scratched his bearded chin.
1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Jan. 29/2 These objects too—mandragoras and tulips, bearded women, horns of unicorns..—carried their own symbolic meanings.
2009 Wire Apr. 81/3 A bearded, bespectacled bloke with the voice of a Thai pop princess exultantly singing in tongues.
b. In extended use: covered with beard-like tufts or appendages.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > hairiness > bearded
barbigerous1731
barbated1804
bearded1847
barbate1853
1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline i. 3 The hemlocks, Bearded with moss.
1870 J. Tyndall Heat (ed. 4) ii. §29. 33 The pipe from which the air issued became bearded with icicles.
1989 P. Genega Striking Water 3 Propped against a bearded rock, huddled from the wind.
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a. Of a plant part: having a prickle, bristle, hair, or hair-like appendage, or a tuft or set of these; spec. (of the grain of a cereal) awned. Also: designating plants having such parts.Also in the names of plants (see Compounds 2).red-bearded, rough-bearded, white-bearded: see the first element.
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair
beardedc1450
downy1551
cottoned1578
friezed1578
maned1578
woolly1578
hairy1597
bristle-pointed1601
comous1657
fimbrious1657
tomentous1657
shagged1671
tomentose1698
crinated1724
villose1727
hispid1753
pubescent1760
setose1760
villous1766
lashed1776
silky1776
strigous1776
sericeous1777
awny1786
awned1787
strigose1793
shaggy1796
stupose1799
thready1804
feather-headed1821
setous1822
aristate1829
filamentous1835
fimbriate1836
puberulent1841
puberulous1841
sericated1848
barbate1853
strigillose1857
fimbrilliferous1866
ciliolate1870
fimbrillose1884
strigulated1899
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) v. l. 33 (MED) Thre of hem [sc. rose leaves] arn berded and no more, And too stande naked.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 48 Berded Tapsus, that is Verbastum.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 26v Whereas our Wheate is eyther bearded or pollarde, theirs is altogeather pold: we call it pold or pollard, that hath no Aanes vpon the eares.
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 140 The fifth or half-bearded [calicular leaf] is covered on the bare side, but on the open side stands free, and bearded like the other.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 982 Her bearded Grove of ears. View more context for this quotation
1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. iv. 528 The ground was covered with a kind of grass, the seeds of which were very sharp and bearded backwards.
1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 440 Sickleweed. Bearded Arsmart. Blossoms white, tinged with red.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott (rev. ed.) i, in Poems (new ed.) I. 78 Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley.
1928 Oak Leaves (Oak Park, Illinois) 9 June 88/2 The stout erect stems carry large showy bearded flowers a foot or more above the clump of narrow sword-like leaves.
2005 Jrnl. Ecol. 93 969/2 Severe degradation following pastoral use has favoured exotic annuals, such as Avena barbata (bearded oat), Briza maxima (large quaking grass), Vulpia myuros (silver grass) and clovers, over the native grasses.
b. Of an animal: having (a tuft of) hair, bristles, feathers, barbels, etc., or a coloured marking, under the chin or on the throat. Also as the second element in compounds (preceded by an adjective); cf. red-bearded adj. 2, three-bearded adj. at three adj. and n. Compounds 3b, white-bearded adj. 2b.Also in the names of animals (see Compounds 2).
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 8 The Calitrich..may bee termed in English a bearded Ape.
1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. xx. 190 The Bearded Loach differs from the former, in having a broader body and head.
a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 8 The first contained the Kennels in which were numbere of english dogs... Among them a sort of bearded hound.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 195 The Bearded Eagles..are inhabitants of the highest parts of the..Alps.
1894 E. H. Barker Two Summers in Guyenne 288 Watch the fish moving singly or in shoals at various depths—the bearded barbel, the spotted trout, the shimmering bream, and the bronzen tench.
2016 @ABCbirds 25 June in twitter.com (accessed 23 Sept. 2019) Seen in good lighting, the Rainbow-bearded Thornbill really lives up to its name.
3. Of a (supposed) star: that is a comet. Of a comet: having a tail, spec. one that appears to precede the comet (cf. beard n. 12). Sometimes also (of a meteor): showing a visible trail. Now chiefly historical and rare.
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the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > comet > [adjective] > having tail
beardedc1475
streamed1593
c1475 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 308 Þe sterre herid or beerdid erriþ fro heuene in his mouyng, & bitokeneþ pestilence.
1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 58v Hieronimus Cardanus a late Philosopher, writeth..that the hearie and bearded Comets and other like monstrous figures whiche appeare from heauen, be as foretellers and messengers of famine, pestilence, warres, mutations of Realmes, and other such like hurtes which happen to the generation of man.
a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse ii. ii. 24 in Poems (1638) Let fooles gaze At bearded starres.
1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 Introd. 21 Comets..are vulgarly distinguished into three kinds, bearded, tailed, and hairy.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iii, in Poems (new ed.) 14 Some bearded meteor, trailing light, Moves over green Shalott.
1997 S. S. Genuth Comets, Pop. Culture, & Birth Mod. Cosmol. (1999) i. 26 Roman intellectuals emphasized the portentous character of comets... Bearded stars served political ends.
4. Barbed or jagged like an arrow, harpoon, or fish hook. Also: (of an axe) having the bottom end of the blade elongated (historical).
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [adjective] > having (a) sharp projection(s) > barbed
witherhokedc1330
barbeledc1480
bearded1577
barbed1611
jaggered1627
tentered1768
barbated1782
wittereda1824
1577 Arte of Angling sig. Div Untill the hook be nothing seen but the bearded points under hir gill.
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. xx. 31 The Archers now their bearded arrowes whet.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 105 Reputation is the bearded hook, which holds most men faster than conscience.
1753 W. Douglass Brit. Settlem. N. Amer. 262 The best Iron Bars break fibrous and bearded.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §42 (note) Jag or bearded bolts or spikes, are such as with a chissel have a beard raised upon their angles.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 45 Rest there awhile, my bearded lance.
1999 K. DeVries Norwegian Invasion Eng. in 1066 (2003) vii. 194 The length of bearded axes shows that they needed two hands to be wielded in battle.
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1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. i. 11 Whether it [sc. the letter] be well Bearded: which founders in France are so obliged to do to their own disadvantage, on account of their shallow Letters.
1900 Amer. Jrnl. Philately Oct. 365 There is a minor error of an inverted ‘N’ in ‘PENNY.’ As the letters are bearded this makes a distinct variety, and is not generally known.
Compounds
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bearded clam n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) the female external genitals; the vulva, the vagina.In early use usually as part of an extended metaphor, with reference to seafood (cf. beard n. 5).
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun]
cuntc1230
quivera1382
chosec1386
privy chosea1387
quoniamc1405
naturec1470
shell1497
box1541
water gate1541
mouth1568
quiver case1568
water gap1586
cunnya1593
medlar1597
mark1598
buggle-boo1600
malkin1602
lap1607
skin coat1611
quim1613
nest1614
watermilla1626
bum1655
merkin1656
twat1656
notch1659
commodity1660
modicum1660
crinkum-crankum1670
honeypot1673
honour1688
muff1699
pussy1699
puss1707
fud1771
jock1790
cock?1833
fanny?1835
vaginac1890
rug1893
money-maker1896
Berkeley1899
Berkeley Hunt1899
twitchet1899
mingea1903
snatch1904
beaver1927
coozie1934
Sir Berkeley1937
pocketbook1942
pranny1949
zatch1950
cooch1955
bearded clam1962
noonie1966
chuff1967
coozea1968
carpet1981
pum-pum1983
front bum1985
coochie1986
punani1987
front bottom1991
va-jay-jay2000
1962 R. McKenna Sand Pebbles xiii. 187 ‘Wong!’ Farren yelled. ‘Bring Harris a plate of bearded clams on the half shell!’... The compartment rang with laughter. It was always a lot of fun to bait Harris.
1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys ii. 14 He gobbles one beaver and gets promoted. I've ate close to three hundred bearded clams in my time and never even got a commendation!
2004 R. Arellano Don Dimaio of La Plata 97 Stella..lifts her skirt... No panties, just bearded clam and glorious ass.
bearded lady n. a woman who has a noticeable growth of hair on the chin, esp. one who is exhibited as part of a freak show (now chiefly historical).
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1687 J. Phillips tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iii. viii. 481 Caressing himself with the Obligation he had lay'd upon those poor Bearded Ladies [Sp. las venerables dueñas], who now appear'd no more, he went where the Duke and Dutchess lay as it were in a swoon.
1703 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote IV. xl. 387 'Tis very right, answer'd the bearded Lady [Sp. la barbada Condesa].
1895 Bauble July 7 Entering the tent, she cast her eyes about; the Bearded Lady, the Wild Man from Borneo..—her eyes instantly sought out..the Human Pincushion.
2003 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 23 Aug. r8/3 Pringle still remembers the sideshow era,..everything from bearded ladies to alligator men to two-headed cows.
C2. In the names of animals and plants.Cf. bearded fireworm at fireworm n. 4a, bearded gurnard at gurnard n. 2a, bearded reedling at reedling n. 2b.
bearded collie n. a breed of working dog developed in Scotland for herding sheep and cattle and now popular as a pet, having drooping ears and a long rough coat that is typically white and grey, brown, or black; a dog of this breed; = beardy n. 3.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > sheepdog > [noun] > collie > bearded collie
beardy collie1870
bearded collie1874
beardy1890
1874 Bell's Life in London 21 Feb. 2/3 (advt.) For sale, at the forthcoming Dog Show... Tweed, pure bred bearded collie. Tiney, pure bred pug dog.
1928 F. T. Barton Kennel Encycl. 91 The Bearded Collie.—In certain parts of Scotland there is a type of sheep-dog or collie which has a beard, or profusion of hair on the muzzle.
2006 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 16 Mar. c4/1 Bearded collies are good-natured dogs that love people and like to have a good time.
bearded dragon n. any of the Australian agamid lizards comprising the genus Pogona, which are popular as pets and have a spiny pouch under the throat which darkens and inflates during defensive displays; also with distinguishing word.Cf. Jew lizard n. at Jew n. Compounds 2a.
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1909 A. H. S. Lucas & W. H. D. Le Souëf Animals Austral. ii. 228 The Bearded Dragon or Jew Lizard. A.[mphibolurus] barbatus... Body stout and depressed, head large, a beard of long spines fringing the head behind the ears and the lower jaw.
1963 Physiol. Zool. 36 199/2 The present study investigates the contributions of physiology to thermoregulation in a large agamid lizard, the bearded dragon.
2017 Beach Mirror (Nexis) 17 Mar. 1 This week's adopt-a-pet Toronto is..Puff, a one-year-old bearded dragon.
bearded iris n. any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having tufts of hairs on the falls (fall n.2 31).
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1757 J. Hill Eden 353/1 Linnæus, taking his Additions from more certain Marks, calls it Iris corollis barbatis caule foliis breviore unifloro: Bearded Iris, with the Stalk shorter than the Leaves, bearing a single Flower.
1879 Garden 20 Dec. 558/1 Everyone knows and..admires the bearded Irises; but it is not everyone who is aware of the beauty and the delight which may be found in the beardless Irises.
1904 R. I. Lynch Bk. Iris xiii. 120 Pogoniris. (Bearded Irises the rootstock rhizomatous).
2003 Independent 7 June (Review section) 42/3 There's a new tall bearded iris called ‘Acoma’ that I'm going to invite home.
bearded partridge n. a partridge native to temperate eastern Asia, Perdix dauurica, which has a speckled brown back, grey and buff underparts, a black belly patch, and a tuft of orange feathers on the chin and upper throat.
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1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 145 The Common Partridge (Perdix cinerea) is widely spread over Europe, being replaced in Eastern Siberia by the Bearded Partridge (Perdix barbata).
1921 R. C. Andrews Across Mongolian Plains xvii. 213 We could have excellent shooting at almost any hour of the day and often picked up pheasants, bearded partridges, and rabbits in the tiny fields across the stream.
1971 J. E. DuPont Philippine Birds 55 (heading) Bearded partridge... Chin, center of throat, and breast orange-buff; sides of throat and breast gray; chin feathers elongated.
bearded pig n. either of two species of pigs native to southeast Asia, Sus barbatus and S. ahoenobarbus, which have small rounded ears, an elongated snout, and coarse bushy hair on the bridge of the nose and cheeks; also with distinguishing word.
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1892 R. Lydekker in Land & Water 21 May 564/3 We have the bearded pig of Borneo (Sus barbatus), in which the cheeks are fringed with long hairs.
1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 July g19 The zoo is small..but incorporates some unusual exhibits, including the only bearded pig in captivity.
2018 @mongabay 21 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 12 June 2019) Bornean bearded pigs appear to thrive in oil palm plantations, but remain heavily dependent on nearby forests as their primary habitat.
bearded seal n. a large Arctic seal, Erignathus barbatus, which has greyish-brown fur, square fore-flippers, and thick tufts of long white whiskers. Also called great seal, square flipper.
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?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. II. at Seal The fur of this Seal is soft..; the whiskers are so long and thick, that the animal appears as if bearded.]
1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 178 C. Barbata (Bearded or Great Seal).
1926 Brandon (Manitoba) Daily Sun 16 Jan. 12 We caught an ugruk—a great bearded seal, weighing over a thousand pounds—and there was great rejoicing on our return to the village.
2001 BBC Wildlife Sept. (Blue Planet Suppl.) 5/2 In the Gulf of St Lawrence, the famous congregations of harp and bearded seals didn't gather to mate, because the ice was too thin to support their weight.
bearded tit n. the bearded reedling (reedling n. 2b), the male of which has a black patch on either side of the throat.
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1827 W. Yarrell in Zool. Jrnl. 3 85 Two nests and the eggs of the Bearded Tit were this year forwarded to London.
1916 A. H. Evans Birds Brit. 42 (heading) Family Panuridæ, or ‘Bearded Tits’. This remarkable family..contains only one British member (Panurus biarmicus), a slender and chiefly fawn-coloured bird with long black cheek-patches.
2018 @greenhairstreak 27 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 20 Sept. 2019) A December day that started foggy and dreary turned much better at Radipole when the sun shone and there was a flock of Bearded Tits on the reed mace in front of me.
bearded titmouse n. = bearded tit n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Paradoxornithidae > genus Panurus (bearded reedling)
bearded titmouse1731
reed pheasant1831
reedling1837
1731 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds I. 46 (heading) The Beardmanica or Bearded-Titmouse.
1879 Chatterbox 14 Apr. 158/2 That little fellow with the long black moustaches is the Bearded Titmouse, which is so uncommon that you may look a great many years without finding one.
1989 M. Howson tr. P. Pfeffer Predators & Predation 59/1 The so-called bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus) builds its nest in dense reedbeds in various parts of Europe.
bearded vulture n. a vulture native to mountainous regions of southern Europe, Asia, and Africa, Gypaetus barbatus, which has long narrow wings, and grey, orange-brown, and white plumage with a feathered head and black bristles under the chin.Also called lammergeyer.Cf. ossifrage n. 1.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > vultures or a vulture > gypaetus barbatus (bearded vulture)
ossifrage1572
bearded vulture1750
bearded vulture1750
lammergeyer1822
lammervanger1830
1750 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 106 The Bearded Vulture. This Bird is of the Bigness of an Eagle... From the Root of the lower Mandable of the Bill it hath a remarkable Tuft of Black Feathers, for which Reason I have called it bearded.
1889 C. G. Danford tr. Crown Prince of Austria Notes Sport & Ornithol. 484 Both my captive Bearded Vultures, the old bird as well as the young one, bore the sea-voyage quite well, but in rough weather they took no food.
1959 Illustr. London News 31 Oct. 563 (caption) This bearded vulture, known as a Lammergeyer,..was acquired by the London Zoo from Moscow.
2009 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 46 92 Bearded vultures Gypaetus barbatus were exterminated from the Alps in the late 19th century, mainly due to human persecution.
bearded wheat n. any of several varieties of awned wheat; esp. rivet, Triticum turgidum turgidum.Also called clog-wheat, cone-wheat.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 456 Of Amilcorne... The eares be..rough with many sharpe pointed eares or beardes, like the eares of Barley... It may be englished, Amelcorne, or bearded Wheate.
1769 Hist. Narr. Great Plague London iii. 113 This family have been used to buy two bushels of clog-wheat, or rivets, or bearded wheat (as it is variously called in this country) every fort-night.
1824 Trans. Soc. Encouragem. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 43 21 The plants..proved to be the triticum turgidum, a variety of bearded wheat, which seems to differ in no respect from the spring wheat grown in the vale of Evesham.
1959 [empty] (Univ. Maryland Agric. Exper. Station Bull. A-103) (title) The contribution of the awns to the development of the kernels of bearded wheat.
2002 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 21 Feb. e5 Is it safe to feed bearded wheat to cattle?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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